The Condominio: The New Housing Model During the Italian Boom
The Condominio: The New Housing Model During the Italian Boom
Author(s): Chiara IngrossoSubject(s): Architecture, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Art
Published by: Universitatea de Arhitectură şi Urbanism »Ion Mincu«
Keywords: post-war Italian architecture; middle-class housing; economic boom; private property; Stefania Filo Speziale;
Summary/Abstract: After the Second World War, new models of housing spread in the Italian cities: multilevel palazzine, isolated or inserted in residential parks, with gardens and collective spaces, condomini which follow the plots of the consolidated city, aggregated to form “urban curtains,” observing the building regulations. The condomini, in particular, were perhaps the clearest expression of the prevailing housing model based on private ownership and on the typical urban growth of that period called “concentration spontaneity,” devoid in most cases of any level of planning. Many urban accounts have been written based on the denunciation of this growth, linked to the so-called speculazione edilizia, and therefore on quantities.
Journal: sITA – studii de Istoria şi Teoria Arhitecturii
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 9
- Page Range: 132-148
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English
