Dialectics of Modernity

Image credits: Le Arti 4 (1939): 358-364

Image credits: Luigi Figini e Gino Pollini, Ampliamento delle Officine Olivetti a Ivrea, fronte lungo via Jervis, 1939-1940, 1 fotografia, MART - Archivio Fotografico e Mediateca, Archivio del '900, Fondo Luigi Figini e Gino Pollini, Fig.Pol.3.1.1.22.5

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Expansion and renovation of Olivetti factory

Artefact Type:

building

Description:

Renovation of the Olivetti factory in Ivrea according to rationalizing and modernizing principles, responding both to the demands of production and to the needs of workers.

Original Location:

Ivrea

Style(s):

Rationalist

Author(s):

Gino Pollini
Luigi Figini

Project Start Date :

1934

Building Phase Start Date :

1934

Building Phase End Date :

1940

Theme(s) :

Italian Rationalism

Tag(s) :

Social modernization
Rationalist architecture
Functionalist architecture
Internationalism
Aesthetic critique