What happens when an architect becomes his own client? What happens when that architect builds his own house in Friuli? And what happens when these questions are asked by two other architects and a photographer? What happens is that a book might get written: a travel diary through a voyage of discovery spanning 16 houses, with 16 different stories of walls, rooms, gardens and, above all, of the people who created them to live in.
These are places influenced and enriched by the objects encountered along the way, along the history that has made each of these people the architect they are: things that are simple or elegant, of value or of no account, dissonant or perfectly harmonious, sometimes very loved, but certainly never random. Because what emerges from these pages is the precision of the aesthetic and functional choices that each of the protagonists wanted and had the skill to customise to their own unique intimacy.
And all this happens in Friuli, a land with a liminal vocation that shaped them, at least in part, and whose call they certainly heard: that of an identity that unites and gathers them and which each of them has also subtly interpreted according to their own nature.
So it was that a book came into being, published by Gaspari Editore. It is not just another tribute to the glossy and utopian beauty of home living, but rather a simple and re-assembled story of the colourful freedom of daily life in which each of us is joyfully trapped, architects included.
The houses mentioned in the book are owned by Renzo Agosto, Federico Marconi, Franco Molinari, Giuseppe Zanini, Aldo Peressa, Enrico Sello, Enrico Franzolini, Carlo Mangani, Gino, Pietro, Piera Valle, Luca Missio, Antonio Guarneri & Nicoletta Romanelli, Renzo Rucli & Donatella Ruttar, Federica Manzini, Robby Cantarutti & Francesca Petricich, Franco Vattolo, Stefania Anzil.
(text by Elisabetta Dainese)
The experience gained in the creation of this book and the activities, passions and curiosities we have developed over the years led to the side project architrip.it, a “project incubator” in itself. It is a container of experiences following a common denominator: an interest in travel as a moment of discovering places and people, shared together with Tommaso Michieli and Filippo Saponaro.
2024
A casa dell’architetto
