Dialectics of Modernity

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Novocomum

Artefact Type:

building

Description:

Residential building in Como, the first designed by Terragni, praised at the time as the 'first example of rationalist building'.

Original Location:

Viale Giuseppe Sinigaglia, Como

Style(s):

Rationalist

Notes:

Terragni had to submit a fake project to the building company in order for it to be accepted, then he changed it completely once the bulding phase started.

Author(s):

Giuseppe Terragni

Project Start Date :

1928

Building Phase Start Date :

1928

Building Phase End Date :

1929

Theme(s) :

Italian Rationalism

Tag(s) :

Rationalist architecture
Urbanism
Internationalism
Private sphere
Architectural principle
Aesthetic critique