1950/56 Ludovico Quaroni
(1911/87) with Mario Ridolfi (1904/84)
Area
consisting of 8.8 hectares (22 acres) with 771 lodgings for about 4.000
inhabitants and unfortunately incorporated by the larger civil constructions
built later
It belongs
to a period, immediately after the Second World War, unfortunately short,
during which the architects had in mind and still pursued the welfare of those
who would live in the buildings they designed, not compromising yet with the
lack of scruples of civil constructions companies
“One of the
most representative examples of low-budget civil planning in the postwar period
which, in terms of architectural research, is the manifesto of Neorealism. The
recovery of popular culture is in opposition both to the rhetoric of the
fascist regime, and to the icy and alienating experiences of internationalism
in the postwar period. The project provides for the creation of an urban
nucleus on a human scale, which gives the image of a small and sleepy town”
(Giorgio Muratore)
“The
enormous and rapid urban development, especially private, that has surrounded
the Roman quarters of INA House, formally completed and isolated in the city of
the Fifties, has expanded - not only to the Tiburtino IV - the bitter
self-criticism formulated by Ludovico Quaroni already at the end the Fifties:
to have created a village closed in itself and unable to communicate with the
city. The attempt promoted by the plan to reconcile the necessity of living
with that of building was modeled in its various territorial applications, but
does not establish itself as a paradigmatic transformation of the city” (Alice
Sotgia)
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