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: 516 articles · 106 heritage places · 7 events · 12 itineraries · 89 photographs
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
A command pavilion designed by Raffaello Fagnoni for the Royal School of Aeronautics in Florence, built 1937–1938. The structure exemplifies Italian Rationalist architecture of the interwar period.
A multi-use stadium built in Lucca during the 1930s, originally designed for 12,000 spectators. Named after a gate in the city’s historic walls, it remains the home ground of A.S. Lucchese-Libertas.
A sculptural detail from the Officers’ Club entrance of Florence’s Royal Aeronautical School, created by Mario Moschi in 1937–38. The work exemplifies Rationalist design during Italy’s interwar period.
A Novecento-style palace on Milan’s Piazza del Duomo, designed by Portaluppi, Muzio, Magistretti and Griffini. Today it houses the Museo del Novecento.
Designed by Enrico Del Debbio, Arnaldo Foschini, and Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo, this building in the Foro Italico complex now houses the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
A Rationalist automotive garage designed by engineer Eugenio Miozzi for the National Insurance Institute, built at Piazzale Roma in Venice during the early 1930s.
A photograph of the entrance to Cinecittà, Rome’s vast film studio complex, designed by architect Gino Peressutti and engineer Carlo Roncoroni and completed in 1937.
The Teatro Francesco Paolo Tosti in Ortona, Abruzzo, is the municipal theatre designed by engineer Tommaso Pincione and completed in 1929–30. Positioned on the Passeggiata Orientale overlooking the Adriatic Sea, it reflects the city’s early twentieth-century civic ambitions.
The Royal School of Engineering in Pisa, designed by Luigi Pera and Federigo Severini and completed in 1937, now serves as the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Pisa.
The Macchi M.39 was a racing seaplane designed by Mario Castoldi for the 1926 Schneider Cup. It represented a shift in Italian aircraft design toward the parasol-wing configuration used by British and American competitors.
