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Alberto Sartoris
A Italian to remember
Architect and writer, was born in Turin on 2nd
February 1901. Sartoris was one of the initiators of the Italian
Rationalist Movement. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Geneva
and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Paris, graduating in 1919 and 1923
respectively.
Leaving from the 20s Sartoris performed a deep activity as a
propagandist theoretician for rationalist culture. In 1932, in Milan
the architect published his most important work, Elementi
dell'architettura funzionale (Elements of the functional architecture),
study on growths of contemporary architecture.
During the 20s Sartoris moved to Turin, where he started his
professional activity becoming a student of Annibale Rigotti and
Raimondo d'Aronco. Still in Turin he cooperated with the painter Felice
Casorati.
Of this period we have Sartoris studies for designing the architectonic
and urbanistic projects of the Stadium place in Turin, those for a
block of inhabitance and office flats in Orbassano and the Palace of
Fine Arts of Milan.
In Geneva Sartoris designed a complex of workers' cells palafits. His
attention was attracted by the action for the "logement social" and the
Avant-Guard Theatre. Member of the Miar and founder of Cirpac
(International Congresses for Solving the Contemporary Architectonic
Problems), in 1932 Sartoris held in Milan a personal show of
architecture.
In next years, together with Felice Casorati, he conceived the ideal
butchery for the business road of the Biennal Exhibition of Monza in
1927; he drew some pieces of furniture and designed and set the private
theatre of Casa Gualino in Turin.
Sartoris never stopped his relationships with the cultural environment
of Geneva, co-operating with sectorial magazines, the "Werk/oeuvre" and
the "Daes neue Frankfurt", and participating to the organisation of
exhibitions, such as the one of the Italian Contemporary Artists.
In 1928 he designed the building of the artisan Fascist communities for
the Turin exhibition. He became a member founder of the 1st International Congress of Modern Architecture at the castle of Madame de Mandrot, in la Sarraz.
In next years, the professional activity by Sartoris continued with
conferences in Argentina, the designing of the satellite workers' town
in Rebbio and the popular quarter of via Anzani in Como (1938-39),
together with Terragni.
In 1972 Sartoris returned to Turin, becoming a honorary member of the
Press Club and of the municipality of the town in 1980 and 1981. |
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