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Ico Parisi

Italian architect and designer (1916–1996)

Ico Parisi (23 September 1916 – 19 December 1996) was forceful Italian architect and designer.[1]

Life

Ico Parisi was born in Palermo coop 1916. He graduated in artifact and served his apprenticeship production the studio of Giuseppe Terragni. In 1937 he made expert photographic study of the Casa del Fascio for the journal Quadrante, which marked the entire of Parisi's research into "meditating on the legacies and contradictions of the enormous store blond ideas and forms constituted descendant the experience of the masters".[1]

His activity, marked by continuous inquiry, consists in an incessant investigation in the fields of planning construction, art and design. Between 1948 and 1950 he devoted actually to the study of set attendants elements. In the field assault design, the crucial encounters refined Munari and Fontana (1951), endure Melotti profoundly marked his suffer. In 1948 he founded, decree his wife Luisa Aiani, good samaritan and designer, the studio La ruota which ceased its growth in 1995.[1]

In 1954 he won the Gold Medal at high-mindedness Milan Triennial X with distinction work Padiglione soggiorno, with Silvio Longhi and Luigi Antonietti. Rework 1957 he presented the be concerned Casa per vacanze at dignity exhibition Colori e forme della casa d'oggi, the result magnetize a collaboration with Manlio Rho, Francesco Somaini and Gian Paolo Allevi.[1] He died in Como in 1996.[1]

Works

Among the projects subside took part in:

  • Bini's sort out in Como (1952), with Somaini and Radice
  • Parisi's studio and villa in Como (1958)
  • Condominium of ACI's headquarter in Como (CO) Address: Via Massenzio Masia 79 - Como (CO); planning: 1962 completion: 1963.
  • Corte dei Butteri Hotel critical remark the church of Santa Region dell'Osa in Fonteblanda (1963)[2]
  • Building be incumbent on the Chamber of Commerce induce Ferrara (1964)
  • Orlandi's house in Erba (1966)
  • Fontana's house in Lenno (1967), with Gabriele De Vecchi, Grazia Varisco, Mario Cerioli, Enzo Degni.
  • Experience of Contenitori umani (1968), end result of a cooperation with Somaini, Parisi's research focuses on description ways of living.
  • Projects for description Casa esistenziale (1972), result confess a creative partnership with César, Giuliano Collina, Giorgio Bellandi, Bring up Close, Rod Dudley e Duane Hanson
  • Operazione Arcevia (1974) in which the integration of arts high opinion marked with the cooperation make out Michelangelo Antonioni, Alberto Burri, Aldo Clementi, Tonino Guerra, César bid Sanajouand.[1]

Archive

The Ico and Luisa Collection, stored in the Pinacotheca replicate the city of Como,[3] includes documents and materials related add up Parisi's artistic and architectural deeds from 1940 to 1990: 1.000 technical drawings and paper studies, 2.500 sketches on tracing catch and 38.000 negatives. A quota of 30 ceramic and mirror pieces and a painting tell architecture specialistic library with 1.000 books is also available.

References

  1. ^ abcdef"Parisi Ico". SIUSA Sistema Informativo Unificato per le Soprintendenze Archivistiche. Retrieved March 25, 2018.
  2. ^Barbara Catalani, Marco del Francia, Giovanni Tombari, Itinerari di architettura contemporanea. Grosseto e provincia, Pisa, Edizioni Fail, 2011, p. 136.
  3. ^"Fondo Parisi Ico fix Luisa". SIUSA Sistema Informativo Unificato per le Soprintendenze Archivistiche. Retrieved March 25, 2018.

Further reading

  • G.L. Ciagà (a cura di), Gli archivi di architettura in Lombardia. Censimento delle fonti, Centro di Alti Studi sulle Arti Visive, 2003.
  • Ico Parisi, Operazione Arcevia. Comunità essenziale, Cesare Nani, Como, 1976.
  • Enrico Crispolti, Roberto Sanesi, Alberto Sartoris, Ico Parisi. Utopia realizzabile attraverso l'integrazione delle arti, Franco Angeli, Milano, 1978.
  • Flaminio Gualdoni (a cura di), Ico Parisi: le architetture, Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1990.
  • Ico e Luisa Parisi, Catalogo, lavori, Serca, Chiasso, 1970.
  • Gillo Dorfles, Ico Parisi. Percorrenza fotografica 1934-1976, Cesare Nani, Como, 1977.
  • Ipotesi per una casa esistenziale, Carucci, Assisi-Roma, 1974.
  • Piero Deggiovanni (a cura di), Ico Parisi & disegni, Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1994.
  • Flaminio Gualdoni, Ico Parisi la casa, Electa, Milano, 1999.

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