Ignazio Gardella

Ignazio Gardella: The Heresy of Brick A Screen That Should Not Exist The Antituberculosis Dispensary in Alessandria, completed in 1938, presents a façade that violated the rules of the movement it belonged to. Italian Rationalism, by the mid-1930s, often preferred white rendered surfaces, horizontal ribbon windows, pilotis lifting volumes off the ground, the deliberate suppression of local building traditions in favor of a universal machine aesthetic. Gardella's dispensary uses reinforced concrete framing and meets the functional requirements of a modern healthcare facility. It also wraps a po...