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Form and Regime on Thework of Giuseppe Terragni FORM AND REGIME ON THE WORK OF GIUSEPPE TERRAGNI AND RICHARD MElER MICHAEL STANTON The Institute for Advanced Architectural Studies, University of Minnesota Venice Program This paperwill associate the similarworks of Richard Como's Asilo Sant'Elia or Casa del Fascio, with their Meier and Giuseppe Terragni, looking at several recent militantly disengaged rhetorical elements and projects of the former and following the comprehensive compositional caprices could easily be seen as the smaller exhibition of the latter's work at the Milan Triennale last institutional work of the same hands that shaped the year. They are paired on formal/ideological grounds, grander Barcelona building or the Canal complex in Paris. finding a similar disengagement from the tough issues This connectionmay seem farfetched. Alate 20th century that accompanied the regimes they served, making a post-modernist corporate-institutional couturier designer connection that may have been obscured by revisionist and a fanatical early 20th-century Fascist-Rationalist critiques and apparent doctrinal inconsistencies. produci~lga product so close as to dissolve the lines I recently spent a month working in the newly- between their practices and eras. Furthermore, this does completed Museum of Contemporarykt in Barcelona by not appear to be the result of imitation or perhaps even Mr. Meier's office. The Museum's antiseptic demeanor, of conscious inspiration. Mr. Meier has been identified as gorgeous linguistic reduction and pristine isolation are a follower of Le Corbusier more than of any Italian. Those indeed striking in that gritty and fluid city. But when I he leaves for Mr. Eisenman. visited the empty building another interpretation became The reason for the marked similarity of compositional evident. Predictably, all vertical surfaces are white and strategy in the work of Terragni and Meier is that both are the cascade of light is awesome. These conditions examples of a very skillful architect avoiding an contributed to a sense of d&ja uu, inspired in part by asphyxiating bind. In Terragni's case, despite his quite illumination and form in the interior spacesof the building, genuine enthusiasm for Fascism, the actual aesthetic but also by the extreme lengths to which the architect edicts and contradictions of the regime forced the young went to abstract the tectonics of certain elements. And architect away from the more ironic and rhetorically that is what this building is made of, not walls, doors, complex strategies of his contemporaries Libera or Moretti. windows, etc., none of that quotidian stuff. Instead this In Meier's case the pressure is likewise intense, if the structure is composed of "elements," of planes and regime slightly less evident. The reason that he could punctures supported by odd independent blocks rammed become the most commercially successful and through windows or stuck under walls, masking the need simultaneously the most aesthetic of the Whites rested on for vertical support, for the physics of the actual. his ability to simultaneously appear to sidestep yet actually Meier's building recalled some of the most exquisite, embrace the commercial culture of the 1980s, the period and formally abstruse, of all modernist compositions, of his rise from neo-Avant Garde to mainstream those of Giuseppe Terragni. The Italian has already been practitioner. Meier's buildings, by avoiding the claimed for Peter Eisenman, and one can see how, on an contradictions and figural absurdity of the work of most intellectual level, Eisenman's early gaming can be of his Post Modern generation, are perfect D?joux of late- compared to Terragni's shifts and shears, to his ironies capitalism, empty, gorgeous and thus ready to adorn, to and complexities. But Eisenman's projects radiate a self- serve or aggrandize the market in the tradition of the Late- consciousness and textuality that is not there, or very Modern. Like Terragni's, Meier's projects are ethereal secondary, in Terragni. In his work the formal games vessels available to hold whatever rhetorical concoction insist that the viewer accept the rules as defined by the may be required, and as ready to be rinsed and placed artist and there can be no denying them. The work of back amidst the dinner-service of power. In their exquisite Meier commands the same sort of adherence. When you distance, they accessorize hegemony while insisting on enter one of his chaste structures, you must leave most of their autonomy. your cultural baggage at the checkroom The laws are In the Fascist era the service required of architecture those of non-figuration and they are insistent. In this was clear, if numbingly contradictory. To simplify the Meier is the natural son of Terragni, while Eisenman criteria of a complex mandate, the Futurist-Classical remains an enthusiastic nephew. requirements set forth, the simultaneous call for progress, in its early 20th-century force, and alignment with the account of the project relying heavily on political Roman Empire, in its imperial promise, led to the tense metaphor, from the design which relies equally heavily juxtapositions and compromises that made the on the met;unymic ability of the individual moment to architecture of the period between the World Wars so represent an architectural whole that is autonomous. In rich in Italy. other words, the apparent Fascism of the building is as Terragni was a devout Fascist, but his career, both as deep as its description while the actual object engages in a designer and polen~icist,nevertheless inadvertently a discourse that is removed. It is, on one hand, about the recoiled from the paradoxical building program of the play of composition and rules, in the manner of sculptors period. In 1927he wrote, with his colleagues of Gruppo7, like Sol Lenritt.On the other, it is about the disengagement "We don't want to break away from tradition: it is of architectural structure, plane andvoid, a disengagement tradition that is in the process of transformation, tahng that returns to an architecture almost independent of on new qualities that make it difficult to recognise ...We politics. The internal rules of composition suppress the must succeed in this: ennobling architecture with the dirty issuesconfronted by a more extrinsic representation. indefinable, abstract perfection of pure rhythm, of simple A comparison of Terragni's projects to the work of constmctiveness, which alone would not be beautiful! . .. his contemporary Adalberto Libera may elucidate some We must convince ourselves that types must be created, of the problems with the former practice. Whether a few fundamental npes.'" Terragni and Libera were committed Fascists or not. and Twisting in the ideological wind, these writings both were, they were driven by the era to express what attempt to meld the purity of Classical models and proud Malaparte called "the revolutionary, inlperial and Italian form and the active energy of the latest European ultramodern spirit."' The way this paradoxical mandate and Russian aesthetic mandates. The attempt at self- formed their architecture was quite different however. persuasion is not convincing. Terragni's justification, a Libera's designs engage in semantic play and tense formal decade later, of the Casa del Fascio as Mussolini's metaphor juxtapositions that verge on the surreal. Particulxrly for the Fascist Party as a "glass house in which all can appropriate for comparison is his post office in the Porta look" reveals the logical contortions that had to be San Paolo in Rome completed several years before the undertaken in order to adhere to both reactionary and Casa del Fascio. This building superimposes divergent avant-garde political needs and to satisfy the desire for references. The outer block of the building, its white lucid Modern form. Despite the evident problems and surface and the neutrality of square windows, appears to given the strictures imposed by the aesthetic struggles of conform to the rationalist rigor of Gnlppo 7 and hIMR the epoch, certain extraordinary responses were proposed (Mot~imentoitaliarzo dell'arclnitettlrm raziotzale), in by some of Terragni's peers, overcoming a set of restraints both of which Libera had been an active member. These which left most Italian architecture wallowing in pastiche first perceptions seem peculiarly compromised by the while attempting to impress leaders and overpower the crossing diagonals of the spandrels and n~ullionsin the populace with massively simple form. stairwells at the block's most prominent fornwd From the subtle transgressions of Ponti, Mollino or exten~ion.~ Moretti, to the metaphysical collage of Libera, De Renzi The woven marble screen that covers the windows and Michelucci, to the severe urbanism of Pagano or at the back of the post office and the marble skin of the Albini, to the mannered reductions of BBPR, Gardella, outer block, in the slight but intentional unevenness of its Figini-Pollini or Vaccaro, to the industrial baroque of surface, also contest the initial purity of the mass. Held Mazzoni and Ridolfi, this group of ideological survivors within this frame is the public hall, a glazed metal oval, a presented an unparalleled example of architectural civic form like the nearby Circus Maximus and Piazza invention and follow-through. The syntactic non-figuration Navona. Its own stainless-steelstnicture carries this object- indulged in by Terragni appears less compromised by the space which protrudes glisteningfrom within the arms of cultural semantics that it seems to ignore and is thus more the surrounding icy stone block. In front of these elements palatable in an era that finds those semantics repugnant. is a portico that extends beyond the mass on either side. For this reason, the very strong workof his contemporaries This arcade, originally clad in contrasting black marble, has been eclipsed by his exquisite but obscure production was intentionally given its own structural grid. Leading and, to a lesser extent, that of his younger colleague, from the boulevard to the portico is a wide stair-ramp Cesare Cattaneo.
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