Framing Renovation - Giulio Galasso and Natalia Voroshilova - Grafting Oases into the Grid

Grafting Oases into the Grid

Giulio Galasso and Natalia Voroshilova

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Condominium in via Monte Rosa, Milan, insurance company Toro s.r.l., arch. Vittorio Ceretti, 1967-1969. Photo by Natalia Voroshilova, © Continentale klg.

Framing Renovation
June 2025










Notes
1

Giuseppe Campos Venuti, Antonello Boatti, Annapaola Canevari et al., Un secolo di urbanistica a Milano {A century of urban planning in Milan} (Milan: Clup, 1986).

2

Nicole De Togni, Milano negoziata: narrazioni dopo il 1953 {A century of urban planning in negotiated Milan: narratives after 1953}(Milan: Franco Angeli, 2022), 17–36.

3

Bruno Bonomo, Filippo De Pieri, Gaia Caramellino et al., Storie di case: Abitare l’Italia del boom {Housing Stories: Living in Boom Italy} (Rome: Donzelli, 2015).

4

Venuti, Boatti, Canevari et al., Un secolo di urbanistica a Milano.

5

Angelo Lunati, Ideas of Ambiente: History and Bourgeois Ethic in the Construction of Modern Milan, 1881–1969 (Zurich: Park Books, 2021).

6

Ernesto Nathan Rogers, “Casa reale e casa ideale,” Domus 209 (1946): 2; The subtitle of Domus magazine during the editorial of E.N. Rogers from January 1946 until December 1947; the title of the VIII Triennale di Milano held in 1947 and directed by Piero Bottoni, where a new model neighborhood, QT8, which interpreted the modernist concept of open development spread in the greenery was presented; Luigi Einaudi, “A favore della proprietà della casa,” in La Casa In Italia 1945-1980, eds. G. Rochat, G Sateriale, and L. Spano (Bologna: Zanichelli, 1980).

7

L. Barbiano di Belgiojoso, “Presentazione,” Urbanistica 15–16 (1955): 196–97.

8

Antonello Boatti, “Il piano regolatore del 1953 e la sua attuazione: dall’utopia del Piano AR agli anni della speculazione,” {The 1953 Master Plan and its Implementation: From the Utopia of the AR Plan to the Years of Speculation} in Venuti, Boatti, Canevari et al., Un secolo di urbanistica a Milano.

9

Federico Zanfi, “Convenzione urbanistiche e il nuovo paesaggio residenziale per i ceti medi a Milano tra gli anni ‘50 e ’70,” {Urban Planning Conventions and the New Residential Landscape for the Middle Classes in Milan Between the 1950s and 1970s} Territorio no. 64, April 2013.

10

The Reconstruction Plan was introduced in Italy as a special urban planning instrument by Legislative Decree No. 154 of March 1, 1945. The Reconstruction Plan for Milan was approved on February 28, 1949 and applied exclusively to the new construction of buildings in the bombed or heavily damaged areas of the city. Although it formally had the legal status of a Piano Particolareggiato (Detailed Plan), in practice it functioned as a general urban framework, primarily defining street alignments and functional zoning. More detailed planivolumetrici (plan-volumetric) schemes were subsequently developed at a 1:500 scale, but only for specific sectors of the city. See Urbanistica no. 18–19, March 1956.

11

Giulio Bettini, Die “città animata”: Mailand und die Architektur von Asnago Vender {The “città animata”: Milan and the Architecture of Asnago Vender} (Zurich: gta Verlag, 2016); Elli Mosayebi, “Konstruktionen von Ambiente. Wohnungsbau von Luigi Caccia Dominioni in Mailand, 1945-1970” {Constructions of Ambience: Housing Construction by Luigi Caccia Dominioni in Milan, 1945-1970} (Doctoral thesis, ETH Zurich, 2014).

12

“Regolamento Edilizio del Comune di Milano,” {Building Regulations for the City of Milan} Comune di Milano, Capitolo VII, Art. 64, 1953, 20.

13

This innovation wasn't from the postwar era; Giovanni Muzio's seminal 1935 Via Ampère project had already demonstrated the approach. Its subsequent feature in Domus magazine framed these street-front gardens—with their abundant light and vegetation—as a progressive typological alternative to the conventional enclosed courtyard prescribed by standard case building codes. See G. Ponti, “Una casa interessante a Milano,” {An Interesting House in Milan} Domus no. 110, 1937.

14

Andrea Casiraghi, “Zur Mailänder Stadtenwicklung,” {Milan's Urban Development} in Milano – Architetture, Mailand – die Bauten, Beiträge zur Vorlesung Architektur VIII, {Milan - Architeture, Milan - the buildings, Contributions to the Architecture lecture VIII} ed. Flora Ruchat-Roncati Zurich: gta Verlag, 1998): 165–78.

15

Corinna Morandi, Milano: La grande trasformazione urbana {The Great Urban Transformation} (Venice: Marsilio, 2005.)

16

Lunati, Ideas of Ambiente.

17

Fulvio Irace, Milano Moderna: Architettura e città nell’epoca della ricostruzione {Modern Milan: Architecture and the City in the Era of Reconstruction} (Milan: Motta Editore, 1996).

18

Maria Vittoria Capitanucci, Il professionismo colto nel dopoguerra, FOAM-Itinerari di Architettura Milanese {Educated Professionalism in the Postwar Period, FOAM-Itineraries of Milanese Architecture} (Milan: Solferino edizioni, 2015).

19

“Realizzazioni e studi nel settore edilizio,” {Accomplishments and Studies in the Construction Industry} Società Generale Immobiliare, Officina Poligrafica Laziale, Roma, 1962.

20

Bonomo, De Pieri, Caramellino et al., Storie di case.

21

Capitanucci, Il professionismo colto nel dopoguerra.