Kallithea Springs (Terme di Calitea), Rhodes
Pietro Lombardi’s 1929 thermal complex at Kallithea Bay, Rhodes: Moorish arches, pebble-mosaic floors and a domed rotunda over springs used since…
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Luigi De Marchi
Luigi De Marchi, architect, is the editor and publisher of Cultural Heritage Online. He founded the archive in 1998 as beniculturalionline.it and has published it without interruption since.
Contributions: 61 articles · 1,304 heritage places · 14 events · 29 itineraries · 5 road-books · 327 photographs
101 articles on the Italian archive
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
- tourismA di Firenze u00e8 il Salone dell'Archeologia e del Turismo Culturale Italiano
- Venezia e il Portogallo in etu00e0 moderna | conferenze Museo di Palazzo Grimani
- Le performance di beniculturalionline.it
- Scrivania Nomos 1984 c.
- Carrello contenitore BOBY di Joe Colombo, 1970
- Washstand, 1904
- Sgabello Mezzadro, 1957
- Poltrona Joe, 1970
- Sedia a dondolo - UOVO modello Nu00b0 267
- Panchina, 1906-1914 c. in stile Art Nouveau
- Jaguar E-Type
- Poltrona Barcelona - Mies van der Rohe
The Former Italian Concession of Tianjin (Tientsin)
Italy’s only possession in Asia: a 46-hectare quarter of Liberty villas on the Hai river, held 1901-1947.
An Italian Quarter in China: the Tianjin Concession, 1901-1947
The least known of Italy’s territories was in northern China: the Tianjin concession, 458,000 square metres of Liberty villas on the Hai river, held from the Boxer Protocol of 1901 to 1947 — and restored by the Chinese city in 2005-2008 as the Italian Style Town. Final piece in the overseas territories series.
Italian-Era Albania: the Tirana Axis, from Brasini’s Plan to Bosio’s Square
Never formally a colony, Albania holds the rare case of an Italian interwar plan still serving as a capital’s heart: the Tirana axis drawn by Brasini in 1925, built by Di Fausto at Skanderbeg Square and completed by Bosio in 1939-41 — adopted, not erased, by every regime since. Sixth in the overseas territories series.
Mother Teresa Square and the former Casa del Fascio, Tirana
The monumental square Gherardo Bosio built in 1939-41 at the head of Tirana’s boulevard as Piazza del Littorio: its Casa del Fascio is today…
Mogadishu Cathedral (1928) — in ruins
The Norman-Gothic cathedral of Italian Mogadishu, designed by Antonio Vandone on the model of Cefalu and inaugurated on 1 March 1928 — once the largest…
Italian Somalia: Mogadishu, the Shebelle Company Towns and a Vanishing Record
The most Italian-built capital of Africa and the least legible today: Mogadishu’s 1928 cathedral now in ruins, the Duke of the Abruzzi’s SAIS company town on the Shebelle, the Genale plantations and their documented labour coercion. Fifth in the overseas territories series.
Italian East Africa: Plans, Roads and the Short, Violent Empire in Ethiopia
Five years of empire (1936-1941): master plans for Addis Ababa, Gondar and Jimma by Gherardo Bosio, 4,400 km of imperial roads, the origin of the Merkato — and the documented atrocities, from Yekatit 12 to Debre Libanos, without which none of it can be read. Fourth in the overseas territories series.
The Italian Dodecanese: Rhodes, Leros and the Architecture of the Aegean Possession
From Di Fausto’s Mediterranean eclecticism on Rhodes — the Grande Albergo delle Rose, the Foro Italico, Lombardi’s Kallithea spa — to the complete rationalist town of Portolago (Lakki) on Leros and the post-earthquake rebuilding of Kos: the built record of Italy’s Aegean possession, 1912-1947. Third in the overseas territories series.
Lakki (Portolago), the Rationalist New Town of Leros
The model town Italian rule built on the bay of Leros: a complete rationalist city by Rodolfo Petracco and Armando Bernabiti (1934-1938), with cinema…