Curated Itinerary
Padua Rationalism RoadBook — Five Stops from Ponti’s Liviano to Rubano (1936–1952)
Five stops through interwar and post-war Padua: De Giorgio’s Cinema Altino, Gio Ponti’s Palazzo Liviano, the streamline corner of the […]
Five stops through interwar and post-war Padua: De Giorgio’s Cinema Altino, Gio Ponti’s Palazzo Liviano, the streamline corner of the former Kofler works, the Sacra Famiglia church and the ex Casa del Fascio of Rubano. Read the full story in the dedicated article Talc, Bricks and a Stone Slogan: A Padua Rationalism RoadBook (1936–1952), by Stefano Vigolo.
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Cinema Altino, Padua
Quirino De Giorgio designed the Cinema Altino on Via Altinate between 1946 and 1952, in the years when the architect’s futurist signature settled into a…
Palazzo Liviano — Gio Ponti University Building in Padova (1937–1943)
Palazzo Liviano is the humanities seat of the University of Padova on Piazza Capitaniato, designed by Gio Ponti after a 1934 competition and built between…
Ex Stabilimento Kofler — Padua’s Perfume and Talc Works
Padua: the streamline-moderne corner building of the former Kofler perfume, powder and soap works, which gave the San Giuseppe quarter its "Borgo del Talco" identity. Exact date and architect are not documented.
Chiesa della Sacra Famiglia — Padua, San Giuseppe Quarter (1936–1940)
Padua (1936–1940): the parish church of the San Giuseppe quarter, brick and Istrian stone with a great circular relief of the Holy Family set into the gable.
Ex Casa del Fascio — Rubano (Quirino De Giorgio, 1937–1939)
Rubano (1937–1939): one of the rural party houses Quirino De Giorgio built across the Padua countryside, a brick block that still carries its stone slogan and four fasces consoles.
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