30 Projects (+1) from the Private Archive of Glauco Gresleri

Abstract

In the office of Glauco Gresleri there is a metallic archive cabinet with twelve drawers. Inside each drawer, the architect had filed all his works, covering a career of more than fifty years. Those files are devoted to public buildings, competitions, religious architecture, private residences, restoration works, design objects, funerary projects, and they include the reproduction of the original drawings, sketches, photographies. Without claiming to be a complete list of Gresleri's works, we offer a selection of thirty projects (plus an image/manifesto), whose aim is to narrate the architect's career. The criteria which we have used to make this selection were not scientific, nor particularly strict. Yet, we tried to cover all the years of Gresleri's long career; we preferred his minor works, rather than the most famous projects; we left more room to different geographies, in order to show projects located beyond the city of Bologna and the region of Friuli. We hope that this selection will help the readers understand the great spatio-temporal dimension of Gresleri's work, and that it will open to future researches.