Luigi Caccia Dominioni

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Luigi Caccia Dominioni (born December 7, 1913 in Milan ; † November 13, 2016 there ) was an Italian architect , designer and urban planner.

Life

Office building, Corso Europa 18–20, Milan 1953–1966. Photo by Paolo Monti

Luigi Caccia Dominioni, son of the lawyer Ambrogio and Maria Paravicini and cousin of the Milanese writer and engineer Paolo Caccia Dominioni (1896–1992), grew up in a house in Piazza Sant'Ambrogio in Milan. During his school days he attended the Jesuit-run high school Istituto Leone XIII in Milan. In autumn 1931 he began to study architecture at the Polytechnic in Milan and graduated in 1936 with a diploma. In the same year he opened an office in Venice together with the brothers Livio and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni . At the Triennale VII in Milan in 1940 he presented a series of radio sets that he had designed together with his office partners in 1939. The futuristic-looking “Phonola 547” equipped with 5 tubes revolutionized the design of radio devices that had been known up until then. In 1941 he married Natalia Tosi. From this marriage there were three children. Caccia Dominioni did his military service from 1939 to 1943, but resisted military service in the Repubblica Sociale di Salò founded by Benito Mussolini in 1943 and fled to Switzerland, where he remained until 1945.

After the end of the war, he returned to Milan and opened his own office there in 1946 on the foundations of his parents' house, which had been badly damaged by the bombing in August 1943, at 16 Piazza Sant'Ambrogio. From 1947 to 1950 he worked on the reconstruction of this building, which still houses his office today. In 1947, together with Ignazio Gardella , Corrado Corradi Dell'Acqua, Maria Teresa and Franca Tosi, he founded the company "Azucena", which is considered to be the first shop in Italy for the production and sale of objects and furnishings.

The period from 1950 to 1970 was the most intense creative phase for Caccia Dominioni. During this time he built numerous outstanding buildings in the urban area of ​​Milan and thus decisively shaped the development of modern post-war architecture in Italy. One focus of his work was residential buildings. From 1975 to 1982 Dominioni lived in Monaco , where he built the Parc Saint Romain residential high-rise, which has around 390 apartments.

His best-known project remained the residential building on Piazza Carbonari in Milan, which he completed in 1961: the patchwork-like windows that are almost flush with the facade in various sizes, the cladding of the house with smooth, small-format ceramic tiles, the block-like volume , which is emphasized by the flush, are architectural themes that have influenced contemporary building up to the present day.

  • Office building, Corso Europa 18–20, Milan 1953–1966. Photo by Paolo Monti

  • Administration and production building Loro e Parisini, via Savona, Milan 1953–1956. Photo by Paolo Monti

  • Istituto Beata Vergine Addolorata Monastery, via Calatafimi 10, Milan 1946–1954. Photo by Paolo Monti.

Quotes

On the subject of design:

“Everything that is not absolutely necessary must be taken away and the object reduced to its essence. So the point is to design the object in such a way that it is suitable for the purpose for which it is intended and only then, possibly, add something. But please in moderation. "

On the subject of housing and the city:

“In realtà l'appartamento è una microcittà, con i suoi percorsi, i suoi vincoli, gli spazi sociali e quelli privati.”

"In reality, the apartment is a micro-city, with its walking routes, its connections, the social and private spaces."

Important design objects (selection)

  • 1938 Caccia cutlery series , from 1990 for Alessi
  • 1940 Phonola 547 radio receiver with the brothers Livio and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
  • 1953 Monachella floor lamp for Azucena
  • 1955 Ambrosianeum armchair for Azucena
  • 1957 Fasce Cromate table for Azucena
  • 1958 Catilina armchair for Azucena
  • 1967 Boccia sconce wall and ceiling lamp for Azucena
  • 1973 Sideboard Mb7 for Azucena
  • 1973 Toro sofa and armchair for Azucena
  • 2002 Table lamp Porta dipinta for Azucena
  • 2003 Luis armchair for Azucena

Important buildings (selection)

  • 1947–1950 Casa Caccia Dominioni at 16 Piazza Sant'Ambrogio in Milan
  • 1947–1954 Convent of the Istituto Beata Vergine Addolorata in Milan
  • 1953–1956 Lord & Parisini administration and production building in Milan
  • 1956–1957 residential building in Via Ippolito Nievo 28 / A in Milan
  • 1956–1959 residential building at 13 Via Giuseppe Vigoni in Milan
  • 1958–1960 Office and commercial building in Via Santa Maria alla Porta 11 in Milan
  • 1960–1961 residential building at Piazza Carbonari 2 in Milan
  • 1959–1964 Residential and commercial building in Via Santa Croce 3 in Milan
  • 1953–1966 residential, office and commercial building on Corso Europa in Milan
  • 1963–1966 Residential and commercial building in Corso Monforte 9 in Milan
  • 1965–1968 Church of San Biagio in Monza
  • 1962–1970 Teatro dei Filodrammatici in Via Filodrammatici 1 in Milan
  • 1967–1975 San Felice residential complex in Milan, with Vico Magistretti
  • 1975–1982 Parc Saint Romain residential high-rise in Monaco
  • 1988–1993 Church of San Giuseppe in Morbegno

literature

  • Article: Luigi Caccia Dominioni, in: Werk, Bauen + Wohnen . No. 12, Zurich 2013, OCLC 884827033 .
  • Maria Antonietta Crippa: Luigi Caccia Dominioni, fiussi, spazi, e architettura. Testo & Immagine, Turin 1996 ISBN 88-86498-04-7 .
  • Alberto Gavazzi, Marco Ghilotti (eds.): Luigi Caccia Dominioni architetto in Valtellina e Grigioni. Skira Editore, Milan 2010, ISBN 978-88-572-0827-5 (Italian).
  • Alberto Gavazzi, Marco Ghilotti: Luigi Caccia Dominioni (= Itinerari di architettura Milanese, vol. 3). Solferino Edizioni, Milan 2014, ISBN 978-88-98274-09-3 (Italian, English).

Web links

Commons : Luigi Caccia Dominioni  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Milano, è morto l'architetto Caccia Dominioni. Aveva 102 anni . Rai News , November 13, 2016, accessed November 15, 2016 (Italian).
  2. ↑ a b Vercelloni Matteo: Luigi Caccia Dominioni and the house as a tailor-made suit . Stylepark Magazine, April 12, 2010, accessed November 15, 2016.
  3. ^ Luigi Caccia Dominioni . In: Werk, Bauen + Wohnen , Special Issue 12, Zurich 2013, accessed on November 15, 2016.
  4. ^ Hubertus Adam: Metropolitan building for Milan. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 22, 2003.
  5. ↑ Maurizio Boriani, Corinna Morandi, Augusto Rossari: Milano contemporanea. Itinerari di architettura e di urbanistica. Maggioli Editore, 2007, ISBN 978-88-387-4147-0 , p. 239.
  6. ↑ Marco Ghilotti: Piazza San Babila: 1996–1997 / Luigi Caccia Dominioni. Chamber of Architects Milan, accessed on August 1, 2017 (Italian)
personal data
SURNAME Caccia Dominioni, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect, designer and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 2016
Place of death Milan