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: 561 articles · 145 heritage places · 687 events · 12 itineraries · 249 photographs
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
Gino Boccasile (Bari, 14 July 1901 – Milan, 10 May 1952), a poster artist of great skill and the author of propaganda posters for the regime and for the Italian Social Republic, was tried after the war. His works are…
Gino Boccasile (Bari, 14 July 1901 – Milan, 10 May 1952), illustrator and poster artist, was one of the most skilful graphic designers of the period, known for the «Signorina Grandi Firme». He also made propaganda…
Leonetto Cappiello (Livorno, 9 April 1875 – Cannes, 2 February 1942), among the fathers of modern advertising graphics, died in France, where he had long worked. His works are now in the public domain. Anniversary…
Leonetto Cappiello (Livorno, 9 April 1875 – Cannes, 2 February 1942), poster artist and painter, is considered one of the fathers of the modern advertising poster. He was the first to throw vivid figures against a black…
Enrico Del Debbio (Carrara, 26 May 1891 – Rome, 12 July 1973), architect of the Foro Italico and of the Stadio dei Marmi, died in Rome. His sports citadel is today among the best known complexes of the architecture of…
Enrico Del Debbio (Carrara, 26 May 1891 – Rome, 12 July 1973), architect, was given in 1927 the commission for the Foro Mussolini, today the Foro Italico, the great sports citadel of Rome, for which he designed the…
Pier Luigi Nervi (Sondrio, 21 June 1891 – Rome, 9 January 1979), inventor of ferrocement and one of the greatest engineers of the twentieth century, died in Rome. What remains are the Florence stadium of the 1930s, the…
Pier Luigi Nervi (Sondrio, 21 June 1891 – Rome, 9 January 1979), engineer, was a master of reinforced concrete. Between the wars he built the Giovanni Berta stadium in Florence (1930–33), famous for its cantilevered…
Adriano Olivetti (Ivrea, 11 April 1901 – Aigle, 27 February 1960), industrialist and town planner, made Ivrea a model «factory town», today a UNESCO World Heritage site. He died on a train in Switzerland in 1960.…
Adriano Olivetti (Ivrea, 11 April 1901 – Aigle, 27 February 1960), the son of Camillo, led the company and made it a world model of design, architecture and corporate culture. In the 1930s it produced typewriters such…
