Palazzo Reale, Sala Dorica 21 February - 13 March 2009
graphic and documentary exhibition
organized by : Giancarlo Mainini, Alfredo Buccaro, Francesco Viola, Evelyn Hendreich
Built on an high ridge in tuff of the Posillipo hill, Villa Oro (1934-37) is the most meaningful work designed by Luigi Cosenza in collaboration with Bernard Rudofsky and, for this reason, counted among the meaning works of the modern architecture in Italy. The relation between the edifice and the wonderful landscape of the gulf, the clear and sharp articulation of the volumes, the interpenetration of inside and outside spaces, the structural and detailing solutions, the elegant design of some furnitures and of the floors in maiolica, are the best quality aspects that are concordantly recognized in the project of the house.
The exhibition and the monograph that accompanies it show the results of a research made by the professors of the Architecture Faculty of Brandenburgischen Technischen Universität of Cottbus, providing the opportunity to increase the documentation about the most significant aspects of this singular house, to set it in its particular time period, and to point out its history.
The exhibition, organized by Interdepartmental Center "L. Pisciotti"and the Engineering Faculty of the University of Naples "Federico II", with the contribution of the Associations of Professional Engineers and Professional Architects of the province of Naples, is been enriched with original materials, kindly granted by Cosenza Archive, that supplement the description of the complicated project procedure of this exceptional architecture, from the basic designs to the feasible ones, and to some structural drawings of the restoration project currently under preparation by the architect Andrea Cosenza.