Ignazio Gardella: progettare la città | Ignazio Gardella: Designing the City

Tolentini, Galleria del Rettorato

Exhibition curated by Emanuele Piccardo

With scientific consultancy by Sara Di Resta

In collaboration with Archivio Progetti Iuav and Archivio Storico Gardella

With the patronage of Docomomo Italia and Ordine degli Architetti PPC di Alessandria

The exhibition is promoted and supported by the Municipality of Alessandria and Costruire Insieme

Organised as part of the celebrations marking the Centenary of Università Iuav di Venezia

Opening: Thursday 1 October, 5.30 pm – Venice, Tolentini, Galleria del Rettorato

The exhibition “Ignazio Gardella: Designing the City” explores the architect’s approach and vision in shaping urban space through architectural design. The journey begins in Alessandria in the 1930s and continues to Venice, where Gardella taught at Università Iuav di Venezia from 1949 to 1975 and designed the Casa Cicogna.

The exhibition brings together documents, drawings, models and archival materials relating to one of the masters of twentieth-century Italian architecture, placing them in dialogue with perspectives drawn from the photographic research of Marco Introini and Emanuele Piccardo on Gardella’s work.

Image: Portrait of Ignazio Gardella, Archivio Storico Gardella