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.
Five stops through interwar and post-war Padua: De Giorgio’s shuttered Cinema Altino, Gio Ponti’s Palazzo Liviano, the streamline corner of the Kofler works, the Sacra Famiglia church and the stone slogan of Rubano. A driving route with map and GPX links them all.
Five stops through interwar and post-war Padua: De Giorgio’s Cinema Altino, Gio Ponti’s Palazzo Liviano, the streamline corner of the
Three buildings tell the story of E42, the Rome universal exposition cancelled by the war: Minnucci’s Palazzo degli Uffici, the Colosseo Quadrato and Libera’s Palazzo dei Congressi. A walking route with map and GPX links them all.
Three stops through the monumental core of EUR, the Rome quarter built for the universal exposition of 1942 that the
Between Cattolica and the Cervia pinewood, nine seaside colonies — ship-shaped dormitories, company commissions and one 1912 hospice — trace the razionalismo balneare of the Romagna coast. A driving route with map and GPX links them all.
Nine seaside colonies along forty kilometres of the Romagna coast, from Busiri Vici’s Le Navi at Cattolica to the Colonia
Founded in 1938 and inaugurated on the eve of the war, Pomezia closed the Pontine series with the most compact civic centre of the five – the nucleo aulico of the 2PST group, with the curated itinerary map.
Inaugurated in 1937 and shelled to rubble on the Anzio front line in 1944, Aprilia is the Pontine new town that tells two stories. The church of San Michele Arcangelo carries both dates – with the curated itinerary map.
Between celebrated Latina and celebrated Sabaudia sits the new town nobody writes about. Pontinia, third of the five, is rural rationalism at its most distilled – a founded town still readable street by street, with the curated itinerary map.
Planned in 1933 by Cancellotti, Montuori, Piccinato and Scalpelli and built in barely a year, Sabaudia is the masterwork of Italian rationalist urbanism. Two buildings, one civic idea, and the Ferrazzi mosaic – with the curated itinerary map.
