Figini House in the Villaggio dei Giornalisti

Figini designed and built this house to live in after his marriage to Teresa Bottinelli. It is a programmatic summary of all the principles of modern architecture as dictated by Le Corbusier.

Standing detached in a garden, the house is perched on pilotis and accessed by a narrow flight of stairs. The load-bearing structure is a skeleton of reinforced concrete, allowing a free layout for the interior.

A living room, dining room, bedroom, kitchen and bathroom are divided over two storeys. The first floor has a patio terrace, with another terrace, sun deck, open-air gymnasium and a small pool on top of the building.

The facades, with long sliding windows, were once finished with plaster painted with “Vetralite”: white for the outside and green for the terraces.

Other significant buildings by Luigi Figini and Gino Pollini : Stacked villa building, 1933-1944, Via dell’Annunciata 23/1
Manusardi Chapel, 1940-1941, Cimitero Monumentale, reparto 9 spazio 315
Residential complex in Via Circo, 1956, Via Circo 1, on the corner of Via Medici
Residential building and hotel (with C. Blasi), 1961-1963, Largo Augusto, on the corner of Corso di Porta Vittoria; Via Francesco Sforza 2/4
Building in Via Mazzini, 1963-1967, Via Mazzini 12, on the corner of Via Falcone 3
Church of St. John and St. Paul, 1964, Via Privata Catone 10