The Sarfatti Building ( it, Edificio Sarfatti) is an office and educational building on the
Bocconi University
Bocconi University ( it, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, ) is a private university in Milan, Italy. Bocconi provides education in the fields of economics, finance, law, management, political science, public administration and comput ...
campus in
Milan
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,
Italy
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at Via Sarfatti 25.
History
The construction of the building, designed by Italian architect
Giuseppe Pagano
Giuseppe Pagano (20 August 1896 – 22 April 1945) was an Italian architect, notable for his involvement in the movement of rationalist architecture in Italy up to the end of the Second World War. He designed exhibitions, furniture and interiors ...
and his associate Gian Giacomo Predaval, commenced in 1937. The inauguration was held on December 21, 1941. The structure was the first built and corresponds to the original nucleus of the Bocconi University campus after its seat was moved from a palazzo in largo Treves in Milan.
Description
The building is considered one of the finest works of Italian Rationalist architecture.
It features a cross-shaped plan, probabibly inspired from
Walter Gropius
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one ...
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Bauhaus Dessau
Bauhaus Dessau, also Bauhaus-Building Dessau, is a building-complex in Dessau-Roßlau. It is considered the pinnacle of pre-war modern design in Europe and originated out of the dissolution of the Weimar School and the move by local politici ...
(1925-1926).
Two lion statues, created by sculptor
Arturo Martini
Arturo Martini (1889–1947) was a leading Italian sculptor between World War I and II. He moved between a very vigorous (almost ancient Roman) classicism and modernism. He was associated with public sculpture in fascist Italy, but later renoun ...
done in medieval style preside over the interior of building's main entrance hallway.
Below the porch alongside via Sarfatti some bas-reliefs by
Leone Todi can be found.
Gallery
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File:Edificio Sarfatti Milano 4.jpg
File:Edificio Sarfatti Milano 1.jpg
See also
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Roentgen Building
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New SANAA Campus
References
External links
{{Commons category-inline, Edificio Sarfatti
Buildings and structures in Milan
Bocconi University