Monoscopic Photogrammetry to Investigate the Buildings in the Period of Modernism in Salerno: The Case Study of Torquato Tasso High School

The city of Salerno and the expansion that underwent in the 1920s in order to respond to the urban expansion following the demographic increase that occurred at the beginning of the century will be the topics discussed in this paper. Transformations that created a face to the city that, in its forms, although not linked to the most advanced avant-garde, represent a testimony of the new characteristics of the “modern” city. Within this evolutionary process of the province of Salerno there is the 1928 project of two engineers, Michele and his son Luigi De Angelis for the construction of the “Regio” School. In a first moment, several projects found in the archives refer mainly to the various levels of the building, with no findings on the main façade that represents the element that mostly gives an aspect of grandeur and monumentality typical of public architecture and of the Regime. In this regard, given the scarce availability of these documents, it was interesting to analyze the façade with the implementation of monoscopic photogrammetry to find the design and understand its majesty. However, thereafter following the donation by the De Angelis family to the State Archives of Salerno, the original project of the façade was found, hence allowing a comparison between the previous study conducted by us and the one that was initially designed.