Ignazio Gardella

Ignazio Gardella ( born March 30, 1905 in Milan, † 16 March 1999 on Oleggio ) was one of the most important and influential Italian architect and designer of the 20th century.

Life

Gardella grew up in a family of architects and completed his degree in civil engineering in 1930 at the Milan Polytechnic from. In 1931, he opened his office in Milan. In the following years he realized numerous projects - initially with his father Arnaldo Gardella - and became one of the important representatives of Italian modernism. In addition, Gardella drew attention to himself by his competition Posts: For example, with the strictly geometric, 66 -meter-high bell tower on the Cathedral of Milan ( 1934) or penetrated by high -rise slabs urban development project " Milano verde " (1938 ), which he, together with the architects Franco Albini, Giulio Minoletti, Giuseppe Pagano, Giancarlo Palanti, Giangiacomo Predaval and Giulio Romano developed. His first outstanding realizations counted the tuberculosis clinic in Alessandria (1933-1938), a key work of Italian rationalist architecture.

Gardella of 1944 along with other representatives of the Italian Modern designed the still quite in the spirit of Le Corbusier urban master plan "Piano AR" for Milan. With the comparatively small " house for a wine farmers " in Castana (Pavia ), the Gardella 1944-1947 realized there was a significant stylistic change occurred: Gardella was an important forerunner of neo-realism in architecture. The return to the fascism seemingly immaculate, rural idyll with a decidedly traditional architectural language has been implemented an example of him. Important works of this flow are in particular the residence for employees of the company Borsalino in Alessandria (1950-1952) or the row houses in Cesate ( Milan ) incurred in cooperation with Franco Albini, Giovanni Albricci and BBPR 1951-1953.

Two years later, in 1949, he graduated in architecture at the IUAV in Venice. As he built 1947-1953 the exhibition pavilion of Contemporary Art ( Padiglione d' Arte Contemporanea PAC) in the park of the Villa Reale in Milan, Gardella revealed his free interpretation of modern architecture: Small gabled roofs and glass façade, which in a second layer of diamond-shaped metal grids can be protected, this house shape. The 1954-1958 constructions in residential house " Casa alle Zattere " on the Giudecca in Venice enjoys a very subtle integration into the historical context. Similar BBPR to Gardella resisted so any dogmatic requirements of modernity.

The open to the landscape, emphasizes polygonal figure of the " Mensa Olivetti ", which was created in 1953-1959 Ivrea, reiterated Gardella modified language. After the construction of the embossed strikingly narrow vertical wall openings faculty of architecture in the old city of Genoa (1975-1989) Gardella followed last big project: Built with Fabio Reinhart, Angelo Sibilla and Aldo Rossi Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa ( 1981-1990 ). This developed in the language of post-modernism recovery and expansion of a theater building from 1828 is from a towering fly tower, are cut into the small square window openings dominated.

Besides his Gardella designed construction since the 1940s numerous furniture and lamps which made ​​him known as a designer in Italy.

Influence exercised Gardella especially on his two prominent students, Aldo Rossi and Vittorio Gregotti from.

1996 was awarded to him at the Architecture Biennale in Venice a Golden Lion for his oeuvre.

Ignazio Gardella died in 1999 shortly before his 94th birthday in Oleggio.

Remarkable buildings

  • Tuberculosis clinic in Alessandria - 1933-1938
  • Urban development project " Milano verde " for the city center of Milan - 1938 ( with Franco Albini, Giuseppe Pagano and others)
  • House for a wine farmers in Castana (Pavia ) - 1944-1947
  • Exhibition Pavilion for Contemporary Art (PAC ) in Milan - 1947-1953
  • Residence for employees of the company Borsalino in Alessandria - 1950-1952
  • Terraced houses the INA -Casa settlement in Cesate / Milan ( with Albini, Albricci, BBPR ) - 1951-1953
  • Therme building on the island of Ischia - 1950-1954
  • Residential house " Casa alle Zattere " in Venice - 1954-1958
  • Mensa Olivetti in Ivrea - 1953-1959
  • Faculty of Architecture in Genoa - 1975-1989
  • Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa - 1981-1990
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