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: 154 articles · 83 heritage places · 3 events · 12 itineraries · 21 photographs
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
The Palazzo del Consorzio agrario in Grosseto is a civic building designed by engineer Umberto Tombari and constructed between 1938 and 1940. It served the provincial agricultural cooperative on via Roma.
A monumental travertine column crowned by a distinctive four-armed iron cross, erected in Belmonte Calabro, Cosenza, in 1932 by sculptor Ercole Drei and engineer Giuseppe Crocetta.
The Ospedale Civile Maggiore in Verona’s Borgo Trento district is a university hospital that underwent significant restructuring to add a new surgical wing.
A sculptural detail of one of two soldier figures from the World War I Memorial in the Sixth Cloister of Bologna’s Certosa, created by Ercole Drei.
A detail of one of the corner entrances to Stadio Littorio in Cuneo, designed and built in 1935. The stadium is now known as Stadio Fratelli Paschiero.
A monumental travertine column surmounted by an iron cross, erected in Belmonte Calabro in 1932 as a funerary monument. Designed by sculptor Ercole Drei, the structure features a spiral staircase and relief friezes documenting its subject’s life.
A sculptural detail by Ercole Drei commemorating victims of the fascist revolution, installed in the Sixth Cloister of Bologna’s Certosa cemetery.
A rural church designed by architect Domenico Sandri and engineer Giovanbattista Canevari for the newly founded settlement of Borgo Mezzanone near Foggia in 1934–35.
A monument designed by architect Giulio Ulisse Arata in 1931–32 within the Sixth Cloister of Bologna’s Certosa, a former Carthusian monastery turned monumental cemetery.
A spiralling staircase detail from Florence’s Stadio Artemio Franchi, designed by engineer Pier Luigi Nervi and completed in the early 1930s. The structure exemplifies Nervi’s pioneering approach to reinforced concrete construction.
