A House in the Form of a City. Casa Ceccarelli in Bologna (1962-63)

Francesco Ceccarelli

doi:10.6092/issn.2611-0075/11192

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Francesco Ceccarelli University of Bologna. Associate Professor.

Francesco Ceccarelli is Associate Professor of architectural history at the University of Bologna. The focus of his research is the early modern and modern Italian city, from the Renaissance through Neoclassicism. He has written numerous studies on Italian architects active between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries, from Leon Battista Alberti to Giovanni Antolini, and curated international exhibitions in architectural history, such as Une renaissance singuliere. La cour des Este à Ferrare (Brussels 2003 and Ferrara 2004). He has also organized a section of the Museo per la Storia di Bologna on the historic representations of the city in the early modern period and the “Sala Bologna” in the Vatican.
He has also co-edited volumes on Giovan Battista Aleotti, on villas and gardens in Renaissance Ferrara, and on Bolognese art and architecture in the age of Pellegrino and Domenico Tibaldi, as well as contributing significant chapters to Electa’s series on the history of Italian architecture. In the last three years he has worked on the figure of the ferrarese architect Biagio Rossetti, on the architectural theories of the scientist Ulisse Aldrovandi and on the hydraulic architecture in Renaissance Italy.

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Giancarlo De Carlo, Marcello Ceccarelli, Bologna, Urbino, Private Home

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The Casa Ceccarelli in Bologna was designed by Giancarlo De Carlo for the astrophysicist and educator Marcello Ceccarelli in 1961-62, a time when the architect was working on the university settlement Collegio del Colle in Urbino, while his patron was completing the Croce del Nord (Northern Cross) - the first Italian radio telescope - in the Po valley. Born as a sort of experiment between two like-minded and unusual intellectuals, this building was, in De Carlo's words, “a flagrant case of a project-process, or in other words, of architecture” but also a laboratory for studying and testing new spatial inventions in a playful way. The author of this essay has lived in the house since he was a boy, experiencing it as a miniature city surrounded by its countryside and populated by numerous friends who were always there.

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