Colonia Novarese — Peverelli’s Rationalist Ship at Miramare di Rimini (1934)
A 117-metre concrete ship run aground at Miramare: Giuseppe Peverelli’s 1934 colony is one of the boldest Rationalist buildings on the Adriatic.
Photographer & Researcher
Stefano Vigolo
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
2,828 articles on the Italian archive
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
- Stazione di servizio A.G.I.P. (u00a0 Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli ) oggi Stazione di servizio Tamoil - Asmara , Eritrea
- La torre e il treno - Giorgio De Chirico - 1934 ( Stefano Vigolo )
- Villino oggi Sede dell' Ambasciata Etiope in Eritrea - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. Pietro Del Fabro - 1938
- Fontana di Ghezzabanda oggi Fontana Mai Jah Jah - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. Lorenzo Azzolini - 1939
- Palazzo Manifatturau00a0Tabacchi oggi Palazzo British e American Tobacco Eritrea - Asmara , Eritrea. 1938
- Edificio abitazione , Quartiere Alfa Romeo - Asmara , Eritrea
- Particolare Bar all'interno del Cinema Odeon - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. Giuseppe Zacche e Giuseppe Borziani - 1937
- Fabbrica Alfa Romeo - Asmara , Eritrea - 1937
- Cinema Odeon - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. Giuseppe Zacche e Giuseppe Borziani - 1937
- Edificio abitazione e negozi - Asmara , Eritrea
- Caserma della M.V.S.N ( Milizia Volontaria Sicurezza Nazionale ) oggi Palazzo della Banca d'Eritrea - Asmara , Eritrea
- Cinema Augustus oggi Cinema Capitol - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. R. Saviele - 1938
Colonia Marina Bolognese — Miramare di Rimini (1932)
A children’s seaside colony for 1,200, built by Fascist Bologna in barely a year and still standing on the shore between Rimini and Riccione.
Party and Entertainment Pavilion – Virtual Tour 360°
A 1936–1941 Art Deco and rationalist masterpiece by Tito Chini, this Castrocaro pavilion dazzles with majolica, marble, celestial motifs, and innovative…
Villa Girasole – Invernizzi – Virtual Tour 360°
An engineer’s rotating house at Marcellise near Verona (1931-1935): an L-shaped villa that turns on rails around a central tower to follow the sun.
Mogadishu — Carlo Enrico Rava and the Rationalist Plan
For four decades Mogadishu was the capital of Italian Somaliland, and in the 1930s its colonial administration reshaped the seafront city. Much of that…
Asmara — Africa’s Modernist City and Italian Rationalism
High on a plateau at 2,325 metres, Asmara holds one of the densest concentrations of early-twentieth-century modernist architecture in the world. Built…
Milan — Liberty, Rationalism and the World Capital of Design
Milan spans the full arc from Art Nouveau Liberty to post-war design culture: Sommaruga’s Palazzo Castiglioni announced the Italian Liberty in 1903; Gio…
Florence — Michelucci, the SMN Station and Organic Rationalism – Virtual Tour 360°
Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station — Gruppo Toscano (Michelucci, 1935). Photo via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Firenze, Toscana,
Bologna — Liberty, Rationalism and a City of Porticoes – Virtual Tour 360°
Bologna seen from the Torre degli Asinelli — Luca Volpi (Goldmund100), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy ·
Rome — Liberty Romano, EUR and Italian Rationalism
Rome holds two distinct and contradictory chapters of the CHO period: the exuberant eclecticism of the Quartiere Coppedè — the most fantastical Liberty…