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- ‘La stazione di Firenze è bellissima’
- Abstract
- In Italy, the development of modern architecture coincides with the major construction campaigns of the Mussolini regime. Particularly in the architectural development of the new stations and post offices, but also the buildings for the fascist movement, architects like Giuseppe Terragni, Adalberto Libera, Giovanni Michelucci or Luigi Moretti searched for a contemporary form of monumentality that expresses the modernity of the country. The principles of light and space, with which the new architecture shows this modernity, is accompanied by a rich and varied use of materials in which the possibilities of new construction techniques are celebrated, while at the same time the gravitas of traditional forms of giving meaning are emphasised. This article traces the debate about a contemporary expression of monumentality in the case of the Santa Maria Novella station in Florence by Giovanni Michelucci and the Gruppo Toscano.
- Citation
- Conforti, C., Dulio, R., & Marandola, M. (2018). ‘La stazione di Firenze è bellissima’. Microcosm . Searching for the City in Its Interiors, OASE, (101), 38–48. Retrieved from https://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/101/LastazionediFirenzeebellissima
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- Aslı Cicek, Christoph Grafe, Sereh Mandias, Daniel Rosbottom
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- Gideon Boeie & Thomas Rasker, Claudia Conforti, Fredie Flore, Casper Franken & Sereh Mandias, Christoph Grafe, Marius Grootveld, Aura-Luz Melis, Giulia Ricci, Daniel Rosbottom, Eireen Schreurs, Eva Stoorgaard
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- November 2018
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