Typological research for post-war school buildings in Milan. Arrigo Arrighetti pioneer of modernity

Abstract

The identification of a series of study sketches related to the possibilities imagined for new types of school buildings has become a pretext for recognizing the origin of a series of central topics in the research on the theme of the school that characterizes our time. By retracing the investigation conducted by Arrigo Arrighetti, a pioneer in translating the idea of the school as a small community in ways and with means that are familiar to us, we can trace a genealogy. The relationship between meaning and signifier, or rather between in-depth knowledge of the theme and its interpretation in the architectural project and its role, on a different scale, in the design of the city, leads to this reasoning, which becomes more precise and, from time to time, verifies itself through a series of projects which, from one level of education to another, re-discussing the relationship between the parts, decline the theme, increasing its complexity, until reaching the idea of the school as an integrated and integral part of a larger community.

Keywords

• scuola comunità
• schemi di composizione
• nuove tipologie