Architect: Virgilio Marchi

Collection Guide: Futurism, Rationalism, and Stile Littorio
26.03.2026

Collection Guide: Futurism, Rationalism, and Stile Littorio26.03.2026

– Rosie Ellison-Balaam

The Drawing Matter collection holds around 70 objects that speak to Italy’s architectural evolution in the early twentieth century. It should be noted that this period was characterised by tremendous stylistic diversity, with movements and groups—often unhappily—coexisting and shifting, ultimately culminating in the dominance of the Stile Littorio.  At the… Read More

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Notes on Urban Form
02.06.2025

Notes on Urban Form02.06.2025

– Editors and Ingrid Schroder

I believe it was in February 2024, at some noisy event, that I agreed to deliver a handful of seminars to AA and LSE students around the topic of urban form. Niall had tempted me with the provision of fifty or so drawings from the archive, but I could take… Read More

DMC theoretical & imaginary urban form

Alternative Histories: Bardakhanova Champkins on Virgilio Marchi
25.01.2019

Alternative Histories: Bardakhanova Champkins on Virgilio Marchi25.01.2019

Had the Zuev Worker’s Club competition (Moscow, 1926) been won by Konstantine Melnikov, and not resulted in the well-known building by Ilya Golosov, perhaps a different strand of rationalism would have emerged in pre-war Italy. This could have extended the earlier speculations of Futurists such as Virgilio Marchi; Terragni’s NovoComum… Read More

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