The Abstract House (Viale Beatrice d'Este, Milan)

Quotes on The Abstract House (La Casa Astratta) in Viale Beatrice d'Este 24, in Milan.

• I consider that apartment building (The Abstract House) our (Mariani with Carlo Perogalli and the painter Mario Ballocco and Francesco Magnelli) the best result in this area: the idea was not to make the condominium "disappear", but to see it as little as possible in a composition of only architectural elements coinciding with the structural parts of the house. We have thus created the abstract motif of the blue balconies, playing on the motif of color and on that of solids and voids. (Attilio Mariani)

• In the Abstract House the synthesis of the arts [...] is also notable for the strong chromatic component: the facade of the building has a cladding in white marble and blue ceramic tiles. The decoration is expressed both in the free composition and in the choice of colors on the facade.. (Carlo Perogalli)

• The synthesis of the arts [...] is also notable for the strong chromatic component: the facade of the building (The Abstract House) has a white marble cladding and blue ceramic tiles [...]. The decoration is expressed both in the free composition and in the choice of colors on the facade. (Carlo Perogalli)

• The Abstract House is one of the richest and most significant buildings of the entire Concrete Art Movement (MAC). (Claudio Camponogara)

• One day we wandering down viale Beatrice d’Este … the Casa Astratta, with the Mondrian-like game of blue majolica titleand white marble. Almost a Montale-style epiphany, theblue show itself only in pieces, above, between cornices and functional quality become poetry. Perogalli and Mariani choose the pathway of emotion, making the gift of a dream … The geometric-chromatic impact of the ”Casa Astratra” represent on the finest compositional solutions of the Movimento d’Arte Concreta stemming from an idea of Rho and Dorfles, with Perogalli as one of its exponents…transforming the theory of production in to synesthesia of color, space, light and movement.
  • • Candida Lodovica de Angelis Corvi (2021), Marco Biraghi, Adriana Granato, L’architettura di Milano: cittá scritta dagli architetti

See also

• Concrete Art Movement
• Carlo Perogalli
• Attilio Mariani
• Milan
• Architecture
• Civil engineering
• Palace