Roman designer buildings (dwg)
20th-century Roman residential architecture: a blend of compositional research and urban quality.
Rome's designer apartment buildings represent one of the most recognizable and refined chapters in twentieth-century Italian residential architecture. Especially prevalent in the neighborhoods of urban growth between the 1930s and 1970s, these buildings reinterpret the theme of living through a modern language capable of engaging with the city's historical context.
In this section, Archweb collects buildings designed by some of the main protagonists of post-war Roman architecture, including Monaco-Luccichenti, Luigi Moretti, Venturino Ventura, and Julio Lafuente.
The works document the evolution of the building typology, transformed from a simple residential building to an opportunity for compositional, technical, and urban research.
The facades become articulated surfaces through balconies, loggias, sunshades, overhanging staircases and material cladding, while the internal distribution seeks a balance between functionality, quality of space and relationship with natural light.
Each building interprets the relationship between structure, volume, and city in a different way, contributing to the construction of an urban landscape that still retains a strong identity today.
The photo galleries accompanying each DWG architecture provide a close-up look at architectural details, construction solutions, and proportional relationships that are often difficult to grasp in everyday urban life. This widespread, sometimes little-known, heritage is crucial to understanding the evolution of modern architecture in Rome.
