Quando il Moderno cerca radici. Casa Balmelli di Tita Carloni e Luigi Camenisch

"The article reconstructs the genesis of Casa Balmelli, designed and built in Rovio (Canton Ticino) in 1956-1957 by Tita Carloni and Luigi Camenisch. Among Carloni’s first works in Ticino after the completion of his studies at the ETH Zurich, Casa Balmelli has often been presented as an exam...

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Main Author: Nicola Navone
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Language:deu
Published: Bononia University Press 2020-10-01
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Online Access:https://archalp.it/quando-il-moderno-cerca-radici-casa-balmelli-di-tita-carloni-e-luigi-camenisch/
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description "The article reconstructs the genesis of Casa Balmelli, designed and built in Rovio (Canton Ticino) in 1956-1957 by Tita Carloni and Luigi Camenisch. Among Carloni’s first works in Ticino after the completion of his studies at the ETH Zurich, Casa Balmelli has often been presented as an example of the current of Organic Architecture that developed in Ticino in the 1950s and saw a particularly flourishing phase in the following decade. However, while the house certainly embodies organic features by aiming at a perfect integration with its surroundings through the use of natural materials and the geometric reinterpretation of the landforms of its setting, its internal spatial qualities have little to do, for instance, with Wrightian models. Rather, the ordering function attributed to geometry is its most notable quality and is a common denominator of the research conducted in Ticino on the organic architecture front: a geometry that relates to the characteristics of the site and seeks a certain degree of formal abstraction."
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title Quando il Moderno cerca radici. Casa Balmelli di Tita Carloni e Luigi Camenisch
title_full Quando il Moderno cerca radici. Casa Balmelli di Tita Carloni e Luigi Camenisch
title_fullStr Quando il Moderno cerca radici. Casa Balmelli di Tita Carloni e Luigi Camenisch
title_full_unstemmed Quando il Moderno cerca radici. Casa Balmelli di Tita Carloni e Luigi Camenisch
title_short Quando il Moderno cerca radici. Casa Balmelli di Tita Carloni e Luigi Camenisch
title_sort quando il moderno cerca radici casa balmelli di tita carloni e luigi camenisch
topic "cantone ticino
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organicism
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geometry
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