Terragni

Terragni

Constructed work 1904-1943

Giuseppe Terragni (1904-1943), was an Italian architect with a short career of only fifteen years. Nonetheless, his work is recognized as the most talented in the interwar period and he deservedly won a prestigious place in the history of modern architecture.

Compared to its importance, the bibliography of his work, basic to understanding it properly, is relatively small and practically nonexistent in Castilian. This has hampered the dissemination and understanding of his work, the colors, the materials he used and the details. Needless to say that the work and thought of Terragni on architecture, apart from its purely historical value, is still perfectly valid and interesting.

The primary aim of the exhibit is to provide a review of his building work to improve familiarity with it and to understand the controversial view he had on architecture. Secondly, to use the commemoration of his hundredth birthday to acknowledge him as one of the great architects of the first half of the twentieth century.