Artefacts

Ca' Brutta

Artefact Type:

building

Description:
Muzio's first 'Novecento' experiment (it means 'ugly house' in Milanese dialect), marrying modernism and neoclassicism in a building in Via della Moscova, Milan, to be used for private apartments and offices.

Author:
> Giovanni Muzio
Additional Author:
> Pier Fausto Barelli
Additional Author:
> Vittorino Colonnese
Original Location:
> Via della Moscova
Original Location:
> Milan
Style:
> Modernist
Style:
> Neoclassic
Project Start Date:
1919
Building Phase Start Date:
1919
Building Phase End Date:
1922-06

Tags: Social modernization Modern architecture Urbanism Dialectic of Fragment-Whole Classical tradition Rhythm Volumetry Aesthetic theorization Aesthetic modernity Aesthetic critique

Themes:

Novecento