From 30th January to 25th March 2024, the exhibition entitled “Arrigo Arrighetti Architetto” will take place at the Guido Nardi exhibition space of the Milan Polytechnic.
The figure of Arrigo Arrighetti (1922-1989) claims a prominent place in the history of architecture in post-war Milan. When he started working for the City of Milan, not even 18 years old, he probably could not have imagined – he graduated from the Milan Polytechnic in 1947 with a project for the reconstruction of Palazzo Sormani – that he would realise it.
Arrighetti would later realise about 150 buildings, all of which were characterised by a very high design quality, up to date with the international architectural scene and, at the same time, capable of dealing with an extreme economy of means.
The exhibition – curated by Adriana Granato and Marco Biraghi – proposes a selection of projects, presented through original drawings preserved in the Trivulziana Library of the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, and the Cittadella degli Archivi of the Milan City Council.
The installation, curated by studio ibsen, intends to restore – through the “brutalist” use of materials such as perforated bricks and load belts – the atmosphere of the building site, and consequently of a season in which architecture was characterised in a strongly material and concrete sense.
The photographs on display – all strictly in black and white – are the work of the Dutch photographer Sosthen Hennekam, who has a long experience of Milanese architecture. The models of some of Arrigo Arrighetti’s buildings are the work of the Labora studio of the Milan Polytechnic.
The exhibition can be visited from 31 January to 25 March 2024 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., in the Exhibition Space of the AUIC School of the Politecnico di Milano, via Ampère 2.
For further information please visit Politecnico website.
