Architecture
Casa Giuliani-Frigerio
Drawings and detailed instructions are being sent from military training to Como. Giuseppe Terragni is serving in the Italian army, yet the building in front of you is still taking shape — architecture conducted at a distance.
Why it is worth the detour
Giuseppe Terragni’s last completed building, designed while he was serving in the Italian army. Its staggered apartments and restless abstract façades hinted at a new direction that his death in 1943 left unexplored.
Casa Giuliani-Frigerio is a hidden gem in Como, known for its unique architectural design by Giuseppe Terragni. The building's staggered apartments and abstract façades represent a new direction in architecture that was left unexplored due to Terragni's untimely death.
The people behind this address
Documented connections, not celebrity trivia.
Giuseppe Terragni
Terragni designed the apartment house in 1939–1940, his final completed building.
Luigi Zuccoli
Zuccoli supervised and developed construction details from instructions Terragni sent while in military service.
What else is close by
The nearest places we have written up, with straight-line distance from here.
200 m
Bruno Pessina Workers’ Houses and Factory Chimney
The chimney gives the game away. This stretch of Borgo Vico now blends into the city, but the brick survivor above you belonged to a silk works that employed as many as 160 people in the 1930s.
200 m
Novocomum
The scaffolding comes down, and Como realizes the conservative building approved on paper has become something radically avant-garde. The city has been architecturally catfished.
250 m
Canottieri Lario Clubhouse
Antonietta Sinigaglia commemorated her champion-rower son Giuseppe not with a statue, but with a clubhouse built on Como’s reclaimed shore—reportedly in just seven months.
300 m
Como War Memorial
Lake Como usually gets the soft-focus treatment: water, mountains, palaces. Then, on Via Giancarlo Puecher, a war memorial interrupts the postcard and changes the mood.
400 m
Tempio Voltiano
Lake Como fills the backdrop; on the shore, a Neoclassical temple gives full ceremonial treatment to a physicist and his battery. No saint, no emperor—just Como-born Alessandro Volta.
400 m
Monument to the European Resistance
You’re on Lungolago Mafalda di Savoia, firmly in Como—then the monument’s four-word Italian title suddenly expands the map to Europe.
Walk it with the stories
This address is one stop among many. Our routes and quests link them into a walk that makes sense on the ground.