The essay concerns the case of the Palace of Justice of Ragusa, built in the 1960s. The analysis focuses on the comparison between the two proposals presented to the national competition announced in 1958, found in the local Municipal Historical Archive: the winning project of the Roman group Battaglini - de Sanctis - Tenca and that of the brothers Gaetano and Ernesto Rapisardi. This design proposal is examined considering the experience gained by the Syracusan architects in relation to the specific arc- hitectural typology during and after fascism, both through participation in numerous public competitions and by building the Palaces of Justice of Pisa and Palermo. Although apparently local and peripheral, the case of the Palace of Justice of Ragusa, bri- efly examined in the peculiar aspects of its construction, is an exemplary witness of the dynamics linked to the design of a monu- mental public building called to respond to certain functional and symbolic criteria in the mid-twentieth century. In a historical phase following the season of large public construction sites financed by the fascist regime, the Palace bears witness to the search for new forms of affirmation and self-representation of power and the institutional image of the republican state.
Il concorso per il Palazzo di Giustizia di Ragusa: evoluzione di una tipologia monumentale a metà Novecento
di trapani, maria stella
2025-01-01
Abstract
The essay concerns the case of the Palace of Justice of Ragusa, built in the 1960s. The analysis focuses on the comparison between the two proposals presented to the national competition announced in 1958, found in the local Municipal Historical Archive: the winning project of the Roman group Battaglini - de Sanctis - Tenca and that of the brothers Gaetano and Ernesto Rapisardi. This design proposal is examined considering the experience gained by the Syracusan architects in relation to the specific arc- hitectural typology during and after fascism, both through participation in numerous public competitions and by building the Palaces of Justice of Pisa and Palermo. Although apparently local and peripheral, the case of the Palace of Justice of Ragusa, bri- efly examined in the peculiar aspects of its construction, is an exemplary witness of the dynamics linked to the design of a monu- mental public building called to respond to certain functional and symbolic criteria in the mid-twentieth century. In a historical phase following the season of large public construction sites financed by the fascist regime, the Palace bears witness to the search for new forms of affirmation and self-representation of power and the institutional image of the republican state.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
