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Gardella, Ignazio
(b Milan, 30 March 1905). Italian architect, engineer and designer. He graduated in civil engineering from the Polytechnic of Milan (1931) and immediately gave his support to the group of Rationalists who were connected with the review Casabella. In 1935 he worked on the restoration of the Villa Borletti in Milan, where one of the traits that distinguished his later work emerged: a balance between apparently irreconcilable elements of styles. In the Dispensario Antitubercolare (1936) at Alessandria, an important Rationalist building, Gardella proved that the language of modern architecture could be highly sensitive to its setting and capable of assimilating the features of the site. It is enhanced by sympathetic use of local materials. This characteristic is present in later works, such as the Casa alle Zattere (1954–8), Venice, in which he made open historicist references to the building’s sensitive context. In 1949 Gardella studied for a degree in architecture at the Istituto Universario di Architettura di Venezia, also teaching there from 1952 to 1975. He was a member of all the main architectural bodies, including the Movimento Studi per l’Architettura (MSA) and the Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica (INU), and played an active part in CIAM. With Vico Magistretti, De Carlo and Ernesto Nathan Rogers, he represented Italy at its last meeting at Otterlo in 1959. In 1955 Gardella won the Olivetti Prize for architecture. Echoes of a Rationalism of the 1930s are less detectable in later commissions such as the projected reconstruction of Carlo Francesco Barabino’s Teatro Carlo Felice (1982; with Aldo Rossi and Fabio Reinhart), Genoa. He wrote little about his work, preferring to express his divergence from the canonic tendencies of the Modern Movement through his buildings.
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- Gardella, Ignazio
- collaboration
- groups and movements
- pupils
- works
- Brick, §II, 3(ii)(d): Western world: 20th century
- Italy, §II, 6(ii): Architecture: Novecentismo, Razionalismo & other styles, c 1920–c 1946
- Italy, §II, 6(iii): Architecture: Neo-Realism & Neo-Liberty to La Tendenza, c 1946–c 1970
- Theatre, §III, 4(ii)(a): Western world: 20th-century architecture
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