In this article, Martina Motta and Alessandro Benetti are both based in Milan, presents a visual archive of the 'forgotten spacship' located in the northern Italy’s suburbia. Motta and Benetti unfold the historicism of this modernist vilette and its current situation.

[.....] In the post-war period most of the middle class of northern Italy looked straightforwardly towards the future and refused to be ‘contaminated’ by tradition. The best experimental designs by Franco Albini, Ignazio Gardella, Carlo Scarpa and Gianni Avon were inspired by the strong need for individual representation of these stubbornly progressive self-made men. This state of things was bound not to last. Starting from the early seventies, as migration flows from the city to its suburbs increased steadily, the need for a mass production of single-family houses emerged. Architects were ready to give up quality and exclusiveness in favour of quantity and repetition: the so-called villetta was born, accompanied by an update of its owners’ lifestyle.....Continue Reading

Top Image: Villa Clerici’s current state. Images by Martina Motta and Alessandro Benetti.

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