The schools of Guido Canella. Type, form and behaviour

Abstract

The aim of this essay is to briefly retrace the experience of one of the main masters of Italian architecture, Guido Canella, in particular from the period when he began to form a precise idea of architecture, namely, during his years as a young teacher at the Polytechnic University of Milan, and how this idea would be directly reflected in his built works, while focusing on a particular typology which was to characterize Canella’s work and research: the school building. This research conducted on schools, initially together with Ernesto N. Rogers, later resulted in various built works in which the school activities, by means of a progressive “typological expansion”, were joined by extensive work on function which enabled the transformation of the traditional school building into a public building.

Keywords

• guido canella
• hinterland
• scuole