Architecture
Via Anzani Workers’ Housing
On paper, this was a whole new district. Then the budget cuts arrived, and an entire neighbourhood shrank to two apartment blocks.
Why it is worth the detour
Two apartment blocks are all that remain of an ambitious Fascist-era plan for a self-contained workers’ district at Rebbio. Budget cuts killed most of the scheme, but the buildings’ galleries and orientation preserve the planning ideas of Terragni and Sartoris.
Via Anzani Workers’ Housing consists of two apartment blocks that are remnants of an ambitious Fascist-era plan for a self-contained workers’ district. The buildings highlight the architectural ideas of Terragni and Sartoris.
The people behind this address
Documented connections, not celebrity trivia.
Giuseppe Terragni
Terragni co-designed the surviving workers’ housing derived from the unrealized Rebbio satellite-town scheme.
Alberto Sartoris
Sartoris collaborated with Terragni on the housing and wider urban plan.
What else is close by
The nearest places we have written up, with straight-line distance from here.
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Sant'Elia Nursery School
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Como Silk Museum
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Paolo Carcano Silk Institute
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Casa Pedraglio
Mid-construction, Casa Pedraglio lost two structural bays. The apartment house carried on anyway, leaving Terragni’s composition with architecture’s equivalent of deleted paragraphs still showing.
550 m
Where the Cosia Disappears at Via Piave
Follow the Cosia beside the street and it pulls a neat vanishing act: one moment it is in the open, the next it is running beneath central Como toward the lake.
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.