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La casa di Gustavo Giovannoni
On November 17th, 1923, Francesco Stagnitta’s request for the issuance of a "regular license for the construction of a residential building" is the official birth act of Gustavo Giovannoni’s future house. Stagnitta declares to be the owner of the area where a building should be built (via S. Martino ai Monti, nn. 7-8), located a short distance away from his residence in via Giovanni Lanza. Some graphic designs are attached to the request: three plants (mezzanine, basement, second floor), two façades (main, lateral) and a section. Following the approval by the “Commissione Edilizia” (December 28th, 1923), the license was issued just three months after the presentation, on February 23rd, 1924, even though it was subject to certain prescriptions: two technical aspects related to the distribution water and the requirement to provide openings for the illumination of corridors; besides, a clear dissatisfaction with solution of the upper part of the façade or, better, with its overly modest architectural tone. Despite the approval, Stagnitta’s request was not followed. For reasons not entirely clear, the property will soon be sold, with a second practice for the initiative of the new owners: Umberto Gentile, Tito Rossi and, precisely, Gustavo Giovannoni. The request for a building permit, submitted on 30th July 1925 in the form of a variant to the previous project, was approved on 26th September and 5th October 1925 respectively by the “Commissione Edlizia” and the Building Inspector. From a further document one learns how the construction was started in March, which confirms how the designs presented were just variants. In any case, the works will be completed in August 1926. The graphic works enclosed to the new building permit application, or rather to the variant of the previous project, appear much more detailed than the previous drawings presented by Stagnitta: a representative completeness, which is on the one hand from the greater richness of architectural motives of the new project, and on the other by the ...
La casa di Gustavo Giovannoni
On November 17th, 1923, Francesco Stagnitta’s request for the issuance of a "regular license for the construction of a residential building" is the official birth act of Gustavo Giovannoni’s future house. Stagnitta declares to be the owner of the area where a building should be built (via S. Martino ai Monti, nn. 7-8), located a short distance away from his residence in via Giovanni Lanza. Some graphic designs are attached to the request: three plants (mezzanine, basement, second floor), two façades (main, lateral) and a section. Following the approval by the “Commissione Edilizia” (December 28th, 1923), the license was issued just three months after the presentation, on February 23rd, 1924, even though it was subject to certain prescriptions: two technical aspects related to the distribution water and the requirement to provide openings for the illumination of corridors; besides, a clear dissatisfaction with solution of the upper part of the façade or, better, with its overly modest architectural tone. Despite the approval, Stagnitta’s request was not followed. For reasons not entirely clear, the property will soon be sold, with a second practice for the initiative of the new owners: Umberto Gentile, Tito Rossi and, precisely, Gustavo Giovannoni. The request for a building permit, submitted on 30th July 1925 in the form of a variant to the previous project, was approved on 26th September and 5th October 1925 respectively by the “Commissione Edlizia” and the Building Inspector. From a further document one learns how the construction was started in March, which confirms how the designs presented were just variants. In any case, the works will be completed in August 1926. The graphic works enclosed to the new building permit application, or rather to the variant of the previous project, appear much more detailed than the previous drawings presented by Stagnitta: a representative completeness, which is on the one hand from the greater richness of architectural motives of the new project, and on the other by the ...
La casa di Gustavo Giovannoni
2018-01-01
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Gustavo Giovannoni architetto della Fabbrica di S. Pietro
| British Library Conference Proceedings | 1997