iVilla Necchi CampiglioPorta Venezia / Quadrilatero del Silenzio
Piero Portaluppi: l'arte del disegno
44 of Piero Portaluppi's key drawings, from youthful caricatures to villas and public buildings, curated by Roberto Dulio in the villa's newly restored attic.
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Before he designed this villa, Portaluppi was a Politecnico student drawing cartoons for the humour magazines Guerin Meschino and Babau, getting a whole character out of a profile, a gesture or a disproportion. Those caricatures open this selection of 44 drawings, and FAI says the irony carried into his architecture.
The show sits on the top floor, beside three attic rooms once meant for the staff, now fitted with his own furniture. The drawings run from houses and public buildings to plates from Milan's 1927 master plan and cities that were never built. You climb up through his rooms, then find drawings for the furniture and decoration you just walked past. Qua Milano likens the drawings to puzzle-page wordplay, so bring the friend who does La Settimana Enigmistica in pen.
Audio notes, fact sheets and a video on his life come with it. It's part of the villa ticket (€15, €9 reduced, €39 family), Wednesday to Sunday 10:00 to 18:00, last entry 17:00. It closes on 18 October.
Editor's pick
44 key drawings by the architect Piero Portaluppi, from youthful caricatures to villas and public buildings, shown in the newly restored attic of Villa Necchi, which he designed.
Look for
The student caricatures
Look for the cartoons he drew for Guerin Meschino and Babau while at the Politecnico, each person pinned down in a few quick lines.
The cities that never were
His imagined future buildings are drawn with exact perspective and shadow, with a wordless satire underneath that turns the modern city into a paradox.
Villa Necchi on paper
Drawings for furniture and decorative details that are in this house, so you can match them to the rooms you passed downstairs.
Good for
- Going Solo
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Nerding Out
Skip if
You want finished buildings rather than paper: this is 44 drawings in an attic.
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- Piero Portaluppi: l'arte del disegnoCourtesy of Villa Necchi Campiglio
- Furla Series – Shilpa Gupta. One Palm Closer to the SkyCourtesy of GAM Galleria d'Arte Moderna
- Un Tiziano per MilanoCourtesy of Museo Poldi Pezzoli
- Mona Hatoum: Over, under and in betweenPh. Roberto Marossi, Courtesy Fondazione Prada
- Villa Necchi CampiglioSailko / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
- GAM Galleria d'Arte ModernaStefano Stabile / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museo Bagatti ValsecchiMelancholia~itwiki / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- PAC Padiglione d'Arte ContemporaneaStefano Stabile / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museo Poldi PezzoliPaolobon140 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0