Percorsi dell'immaginazione. Giuseppe Vaccaro e i disegni dal fronte

2019

The proposed essay covers the redesign of the graphic notes for a small manual on the “serial” houses. Written by Giuseppe Vaccaro between 1940 and 1942 when he was called to participate in military actions during the second great war. The text, the schemes and the design elaborated by the Bolognese architect not only seem to ‘anticipate’ the housing emergency that would have occurred at the end of the conflict, but also they highlight his imaginative power. Held firm both by knowledge careful of the manuals that from the themes of the existenzminimum.