Ricerc@Sapienza

The encounter, in the past editions of Aplimat Conference, with Paola Magnaghi Delfino, daughter of Augusto Magnaghi who, together with his friend and fellow student Mario, founded the Studio Magnaghi-Terzaghi, was an opportunity to start a systematic research on the drawings and projects carried out by these two architects, collaborators of Pietro Lingeri and Giuseppe Terragni, that were two of the most important exponents of Modern Architecture in Milan. The modern architecture created by the two architects is strongly mathematical in its conception.

The study of mathematical objects with the philosophical aspiration to true, beauty and right, are the center of the research that from 2016, we are carrying on as the appliance of a method for the project of renewal of buildings and historical sites, starting from the original unit of measurement. The research produced survey-and-design experiments of different nature. The first in Castri di Lecce, a small town in Puglia, culminated with an exhibition and published in a book that extensively illustrates the hypotheses of intervention on this ancient ducal palace.