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.

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

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