Stefano Vigolo photographs and documents Italian architecture of the interwar decades — the years known in Italy as the Ventennio — from Rationalism and Art Déco to the buildings that fall between the guidebooks. He is a researcher of the period.
Contributions: 1,023 articles · 153 heritage places · 713 events · 12 itineraries · 460 photographs
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
Roberto Narducci’s railway station in Pesaro (1935) exemplifies the architect’s modernist approach to institutional design. Built for the Italian state railway, it reflects the rationalist principles of early twentieth-century Italian architecture.
A postal and telegraph palace designed by architect Alberto Alpago in Belluno between 1936 and 1938, representing early 20th-century Italian public architecture.
A commemorative monument created by sculptor Enrico Butti in 1923 to honour those who died in war. Butti was a Milanese sculptor renowned for his funerary and commemorative works.
A 1935 stadium designed by architect Raffaello Brizzi in Livorno, Tuscany. This photograph documents a detail of the structure from Italy’s interwar architectural period.
A radio tower designed by Armando Melis de Villa, Giovanni Bernocco and Giorgio Scanagatta in Turin during the 1930s. An example of interwar Italian architectural modernism.
A residential building in Bergamo designed by architect Alziro Bergonzo between 1937 and 1940, built for aviator and politician Antonio Locatelli.
Four bridges designed by engineer Eugenio Miozzi in Venice, 1932–33. An infrastructural project undertaken during the engineer’s tenure as head of Venice’s Public Works Department.
The Ponte della Vittoria in Belluno was designed by engineer Eugenio Miozzi, Zampieri, and architect Riccardo Alfare, completed between 1923 and 1926.
A bridge designed by architect Ettore Fagiuoli and engineer Ferruccio Cipriani, completed in Verona between 1928 and 1931.
A reinforced-concrete bridge designed by engineer Eugenio Miozzi in the Veneto region during the 1920s, part of Italy’s postwar reconstruction efforts.
