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.
Angelo Canevari designed decorative mosaics depicting the history of flight for the courtyard of the former Aeronautical College in Forlì. The mosaics reflect the artist’s mastery of this medium across major Italian public commissions.
The Torre Littoria, now known as Grattacielo Reale Mutua, is a residential tower in central Turin designed by Armando Melis de Villa and engineers Giovanni Bernocco and Giorgio Scanagatta. Completed in 1934, it was Europe’s tallest residential building for eighteen years.
A sculptural detail from Ercole Drei’s Monument to the Fallen in the Cloister VI of the Certosa di Bologna, completed in 1933.
A 1925 theatre built by the Solvay chemical company in Rosignano Marittimo, Tuscany, as part of a comprehensive welfare programme for factory workers and their families.
The former Stella Maris Colony in Pescara, designed by architect Francesco Leoni, was built in 1938–39. This Rationalist seaside facility represents interwar Italian institutional architecture.
A residential building designed by architect Innocenzo Sabbatini for the Istituto Case Popolari in Rome’s Garbatella neighbourhood, completed in 1928.
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 with an iron cross stands on a hillside in Calabria. Sculptor Ercole Drei designed this funerary monument in the 1930s, its relief friezes documenting historical episodes.
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 detail of one of two soldiers from the Monument to the Fallen in the Sixth Cloister of the Certosa di Bologna, sculpted by Ercole Drei. The work commemorates those who died in service.
