The book analyzes the professional activity of the architect and engineer Pietro Scibilia (1889-1971), who operates in the period between the Twenties and the Sixties of the twentieth century, comparing the production design with the local and national contemporary scene. The research, told through the analysis of its projects and its vast architectural production, was based primarily on the study of the documentary fund constituting the Scibilia archive and was supported by a survey also carried out in other Sicilian archives, first of all the Historical Archive of the City of Palermo, which proved to be a source of primary importance for the procurement of new projects, of which copies were kept and often supplied with their relative documentation. The projects demonstrate the intense activity of a professional who, while adhering to different instances, maintained throughout the course of his career a substantial coherence, revealing versatility in the field of design through constant attention to the issues of contemporary architectural debate. The survey, aimed at identifying the distinctive features of its architecture, has allowed us to outline the presence of a search path that leads him, as happens to other engineers and architects belonging to his generation, to the experimentation with different languages, which is reflection of an era full of profound changes: from an initial measured adherence to the Liberty movement, which manifests the assimilation of the Ernesto Basile school, Scibilia, through intermediate stages, especially in the second half of the Thirties, reaches a rationalist language which will result, starting from the Second World War, in a very clear and resolute participation in instances of Functionalism.

Il volume analizza l’attività professionale di Pietro Scibilia (1889-1971), architetto e ingegnere palermitano che opera nell’arco temporale compreso fra gli anni venti e gli anni sessanta del Novecento, comparandone la produzione progettuale con il coevo panorama locale e nazionale. La ricerca, raccontata attraverso l’analisi dei suoi progetti e della sua vasta produzione architettonica, si è basata in primo luogo sullo studio del fondo documentario costituente l’archivio Scibilia, ed è stata supportata da un’indagine incrociata svolta anche presso altri archivi siciliani, primo fra tutti l’Archivio Storico del Comune di Palermo, che si è rivelato una fonte di primaria importanza per il reperimento di progetti inediti, conservati in copia, spesso forniti di relativa documentazione. I progetti dimostrano l’intensa attività di un professionista che, pur aderendo a istanze differenti, mantiene durante il corso della propria carriera una sostanziale coerenza, rivelando versatilità in ambito progettuale attraverso una costante attenzione ai temi del dibattito architettonico contemporaneo. L’indagine, volta all’individuazione dei caratteri distintivi della sua architettura, ha consentito di delineare la presenza di un percorso di ricerca che lo porta, analogamente a quanto accade per altri ingegneri e architetti appartenenti alla sua generazione, alla sperimentazione di linguaggi diversi, riflesso di un’epoca densa di profondi mutamenti: da un’iniziale misurata adesione al Liberty, che manifesta l’assimilazione della lezione basiliana, Scibilia attraverso tappe intermedie giunge, soprattutto a partire dalla seconda metà degli anni trenta, a un linguaggio di matrice razionalista che sfocerà, a partire dal secondo dopoguerra, in una più netta e decisa partecipazione alle istanze del funzionalismo.

SCIBILIA, F., SCIBILIA, N. (2013). PIETRO SCIBILIA Ingegnere Architetto (1889-1971). Roma : ARACNE EDITRICE SRL.

PIETRO SCIBILIA Ingegnere Architetto (1889-1971)

SCIBILIA, Federica;SCIBILIA, Nunzio
2013-01-01

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The book analyzes the professional activity of the architect and engineer Pietro Scibilia (1889-1971), who operates in the period between the Twenties and the Sixties of the twentieth century, comparing the production design with the local and national contemporary scene. The research, told through the analysis of its projects and its vast architectural production, was based primarily on the study of the documentary fund constituting the Scibilia archive and was supported by a survey also carried out in other Sicilian archives, first of all the Historical Archive of the City of Palermo, which proved to be a source of primary importance for the procurement of new projects, of which copies were kept and often supplied with their relative documentation. The projects demonstrate the intense activity of a professional who, while adhering to different instances, maintained throughout the course of his career a substantial coherence, revealing versatility in the field of design through constant attention to the issues of contemporary architectural debate. The survey, aimed at identifying the distinctive features of its architecture, has allowed us to outline the presence of a search path that leads him, as happens to other engineers and architects belonging to his generation, to the experimentation with different languages, which is reflection of an era full of profound changes: from an initial measured adherence to the Liberty movement, which manifests the assimilation of the Ernesto Basile school, Scibilia, through intermediate stages, especially in the second half of the Thirties, reaches a rationalist language which will result, starting from the Second World War, in a very clear and resolute participation in instances of Functionalism.
2013
Settore ICAR/18 - Storia Dell'Architettura
978-88-548-5958-6
SCIBILIA, F., SCIBILIA, N. (2013). PIETRO SCIBILIA Ingegnere Architetto (1889-1971). Roma : ARACNE EDITRICE SRL.
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