Nivola L'investigazione dello spazio (G. Altea) (original) (raw)
The recent critical reappraisal of the work of Bernard Rudofsky has highlighted the originality of his multifaceted approach to architecture and to life in general. This paper examines his only architectural work completed between 1941 and 1962: the garden of his friend Tino Nivola’s house in Long Island, designed in 1949-50 in collaboration with Nivola himself, where Rudofsky put in practice the idea of the “open-air room” envisaged in his designs made in Italy with Gio Ponti during the Thirties and then in Brazil. While the architectural layout of the garden was done by Rudofsky, Nivola – later to became a prominent figure in architectural sculpture - contributed a series of murals and others details. A pivotal work in Rudofsky’s career, the Nivola garden represents a unique attempt at implanting themes and motifs from European Mediterraneism in an American habitat, but it also mirrors the insights of George Eckbo developed within the landscape architecture debate that took place ...
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