Ignazio gardella biography books
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Ignazio Gardella (1959)
Artist(s): Ignazio Gardella
Author(s): Giulio Carlo Argan
Format:hardback
Edition: First Edition
Year published: 1959
Publisher: Edizioni di Comunita
Publisher Location: Milan
Total Pages: 201
Illustrations: Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white
Out of stock
Important early monograph on the modernist architect, designer and member of the CIAM. skrivelse in Italian and English. Condition: no dust-jacket. Boards a little worn to edges and corners. Light cracking to front and rear hinges. Slight spotting to rear endpapers. Large closed tear to page 64, otherwise very good.
Categories: Architecture, Books, Modern International, Rare & Out of PrintTags: architecture, Ignazio Gardella
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Measurements
32 cm x 110 cm x 240 height cm
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Provenance
Private collection, Italy
Bibliography
Giuliana Gramigna, Repertorio del Design Italiano 1950-2000, Volume I, Umberto Allemandi & C, 2003, p. 42. Giulana Gramina, Repertorio 1950-1980, Arnoldo Mondadori, 1985, p. 92
Literature
"Alla XI Triennale di Milano," Domus, no. 337, December 1957, p. 20 Giuliana Gramigna, Repertorio 1950/1980, Milan, 1985, p. 92 Andrea Branzi and Michele De Lucchi, eds., Il Design Italiano Degli Anni ’50, Milan, 1985, p. 123, fig. 377
Bio
Ignazio was a italian architect and designer, born into a family of architects. His long professional activity, which began before his graduation at the end of the 20’s with his father Arnaldo Gardella, produced an enormous quantity of projects and realizations and before the
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Ignazio Gardella (1905 – 1999) Italian Architect-Designer
Ignazio Gardella began working on architectural projects in Alessandria in 1929, including the Dispensario Antitubercolare (1929-1930), which is regarded as an example of Italian Rationalism, and the Laboratorio Provinciale di Igiene. He was laying the groundwork for his future career as an architect. He was recognised for his work in the Rogers editorial group’s journal “Casabella,” famed for its Italian architecture creativity.
Early Years
Despite being one of the most prominent proponents of the style, Gardella chose to break free from Rationalism’s creative limits. To that goal, he travelled to many countries to study different techniques. He began by travelling to Germany, where he attended the Frankfurt School and became acquainted with German architecture. In 1938, he travelled to Finland to see Ilmari Tapiovaara’s mentor, designer Alvar Aalto. That same year, he returned to