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Residential Building, via Quadronno, 24, Milan, 1959-62. Architects: Angelo Mangiarotti (1921 Milan -2012 Milan) and Bruno Morassutti (1920 Padua - 2008 Belluno). A tower in a garden (or is it a garden in a tower?) This wonderful residential tower, overlooking a public park, demonstrates the imagination of those architects in the sixties who sought design freedoms independent from traditional precedents of the “historical city” - hard street walls, the traditional distinction between house and garden, load-bearing walls, or even fixed planning. A flexible set of prefabricated parts allowed for variable internal arrangements of the apartments, different on each floor. On the exterior, the details of the facade were also freely defined, with three different solutions: windows, wooden slatted panels, or metal loggias. Despite the informality of the exterior infill, the grid of the building contains a cohesive overall unity, particularly now that it is covered with climbing plants, part of the original intended design. The architects explained these intentions in a 1963 issue of Domus as the “principle of continuity of the elevations.” #architecture #architecturalphotography #architecturephotograph #architectures #modernist #modern #modernarchitecture #historyofarchitecture #historyofmodernism #milano #milan #milanarchitecture #rationalistarchitecture #sixties #midcentury #midcenturymodern #Mangiarotti #towerinthegarden #climbingplants #garden