IGNAZIO GARDELLA
Giulio Carlo Argan
Giulio Carlo Argan: IGNAZIO GARDELLA. Milan: Edizioni di Comunita, September 1959. First edition. Parallel text in Italian and English. Quarto. Burlap cloth stamped in red. 201 pp. 263 images, including plans, diagrams, photographs and color plates. Spine cloth uniformly sunned. Mild yellowing to page edges. First 20 leaves lightly skinned from mild dampstain to lowest textblock edge; no text of images affected. A nearly very good copy of a surprisingly scarce title.7.75 x 10.25 hardcover book with 201 pages and 263 images, including plans, diagrams, photographs and color plates. Book design and typography by Max Huber. The first monograph on the multi-talented Italian architect/designer Ignazio Gardella; includes apartment and office buildings, residences and a variety of public structures, all linked by the architect's inventive integration of Rationalist principles and traditional styles.
Ignazio Gardella [1905 - 1999] was an Italian architect and designer who played an important role in the creation of the Italian Modern Movement. In 1947 he founded the Azucena Agency with Luigi Caccia Dominioni, designing primarily decorative furniture objects.
Gardella also produced an enormous quantity of architecture, always adapting to changing architectural tendencies, often anticipating them, but always containing divergent elements. Gardella is one of the Italian Rationalists, but his use of local construction techniques, like the famous brick screen of the Dispensario in Alessandria (1934Ð38), makes him in some ways a heretic. In the 1950s he came closer to regionalist currents, but his buildings also maintained an abstraction that distanced them from the most famous works of Neoliberty or Neorealism.
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