FIGINI AND POLLINI. OLIVETTI KINDERGARTEN IN IVREA
- Category: Architecture
- Author/Editor: Sara Protasoni
- Format: Illustrated/Softback
- Dimension: 18 cms x 23 cms
- Pages: 168
- Price: 22 €
- Year: 2021
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The volume explores an unprecedented aspect of Figini and Pollini's work: the continuous search for a relationship, both physical and symbolic, between nature and architecture. Leading exponents of Italian Rationalism, engaged in the field of design at different scales (the object, the building, the city and the territory), Luigi Figini and Gino Pollini formed the most lasting and productive partnership of that historical phase that saw Italian architecture assert itself in the international debate between the Thirties (with Gruppo 7 and the Miar) and the second postwar period. The collaboration with Adriano Olivetti, which began in the 1930s, marked one of the most significant periods of this experience. In the settlement that Adriano Olivetti wanted in Ivrea around the idea of a city-factory inspired by the principles of the Community Movement, Figini and Pollini created various works. Among these, the kindergarten constitutes a fundamental step in the research on the relationship between nature and architecture. The building, an elementary volume made entirely of stone, is composed by an articulated system of patios and arcades that creates a system of relationships between the interior and the surrounding landscape, modeled with great sensitivity for the characteristics of the original site.