Resumen de Tomaso Buzzi e la Valtellina: l'architettura vernacolare e la tradizione artigiana
Tomaso Buzzi and Valtellina: vernacular architecture and the craft tradition.
Despite his birth and family origins, the "Milanese" Tomaso Buzzi's relationship with Valtellina was a difficult one, and he left few signs there of his professional activity. But in the years of his education his direct contact with the land and the vernacular tradition of the Lomnbard region provided an important opportunity for reflection on construction techniques, the nature of the materials and craft practices, orienting Buzzi's sensitivity in a direction he was then to follow in his career as architect, furnisher and designer of art objects. The essay concentrates on the unpublished manuscript "Alcune note sull'arte rustica valtellinese" (1920) and on numerous drawings of rural buldings held in the Scarzuola archive, contextualizing Buzzi's work in the panorama of the studies on rustic art in Italy in the early 1920s and putting it into relationship with some plans -primarily that of a "Villa in Montagna" (1930)- drawn up in the years he worked with the magazine "Domus".
