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: 125 articles · 81 heritage places · 12 itineraries · 18 photographs
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
Palazzo del Viminale is a historic palace in Rome, designed by architect Manfredo Manfredi and inaugurated in 1925. It has served as the seat of the Prime Minister and Ministry of Interior since its completion.
A 1934 magazine design by Bruno Munari, the Italian modernist artist and designer whose work bridged visual arts, graphics, and industrial design.
Edilizia Moderna was a monthly architecture journal founded in Milan in 1892, documenting notable construction projects across Italy and internationally through technical analysis and photography.
A 1939 publication by Bruno Munari, the Italian artist, designer and inventor who shaped modernism and concrete art across multiple visual and non-visual disciplines.
Brenno Del Giudice designed the Venice Pavilion for the Biennale di Venezia in 1932. The pavilion served the biennial international art exhibition held in Venice.
Brenno Del Giudice designed the Padiglione Venezia for the Venice Biennale in 1932. The structure served the international art exhibition that has been held biennially since 1895.
A Rationalist administrative building in Ferrara designed by engineers Giorgio Gandini and Carlo Savonuzzi for the Italian Royal Air Force between 1935 and 1937. Now known as Palazzo dell’Aeronautica, it reflects the architectural modernism of interwar Italy.
A monument to the war dead erected in Avezzano in 1926 by sculptor Ermenegildo Luppi. Such memorials commemorate those who died in military conflict, typically bearing the names of the fallen.
A classical secondary school in Sassari designed by architects Giuseppe Caporioni and Augusto Valente in 1929, named after the Sardinian jurist Domenico Alberto Azuni.
An elementary school in Norma, Latina province, dedicated to Rosa Maltoni Mussolini, an Italian schoolteacher and mother of Benito Mussolini.
