{"id":28123,"date":"2025-05-28T16:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=28123"},"modified":"2025-05-28T16:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:21:12","slug":"fantasie-di-architettura-by-aldo-avati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2025\/05\/28\/fantasie-di-architettura-by-aldo-avati\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasie di architettura by Aldo Avati"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Giving a small collection of architectural designs the label “fantasies” seems an odd thing when so many building designs don’t go further than the planning stage: Frank Lloyd Wright’s mile-high skyscraper<\/a> is as much a fantasy as the unbuilt towers of London<\/a> or any of the losing designs from the world’s many architectural competitions. Fantasie di architettura: schizze e prospettive<\/em><\/a> (1920) is a portfolio of 60 plates by Aldo Avati, an architect and stage designer from Bologna whose designs are more fanciful than overtly fantastic. The introductory note refers to “the magician Piranesi” whose architectural caprices, especially his Carceri d\u2019Invenzione<\/em>, cast long shadows across all the arts. Piranesi’s influence is certainly evident here, in the views through huge ramparts and stone arches, the flights of stairs and dramatic lighting. Some of the views wouldn’t be out of place in this collection of drawings and paintings<\/a> by an earlier generation of Italian stage designers.<\/p>\n

Note: Although the book is titled “Part One” there doesn’t seem to have been a part two.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The other Carceri<\/a>
\n\u2022 Fantaisies Architecturales by Henri Mayeux<\/a>
\n\u2022 Temples for Future Religions by Fran\u00e7ois Garas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Giving a small collection of architectural designs the label “fantasies” seems an odd thing when so many building designs don’t go further than the planning stage: Frank Lloyd Wright’s mile-high skyscraper is as much a fantasy as the unbuilt towers of London or any of the losing designs from the world’s many architectural competitions. Fantasie … Continue reading “Fantasie di architettura by Aldo Avati”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Fantasie di architettura by Aldo Avati","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,42],"tags":[13998,12071],"class_list":["post-28123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","tag-aldo-avati","tag-giovanni-battista-piranesi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7jB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}