Luigi Caccia Dominioni (1913-2016). The Case of Vigoni. A Voyeur in View

Abstract

The Milanese architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni always worked in this city displaying his compromise with architecture and the profession. The present article is centred on the presentation and study of one of his most characteristic residential buildings, located in via Giuseppe Vigoni in Milan. Although the work of this author cannot be understood through just one building, the chosen case nonetheless collects, in an especially intense way, issues transferable not only to his own trajectory but also, without a doubt, to the architectural present. The validity and, above all, the need to recapture the housing project from surveys made on instinct, for the inhabiting from inside to outside, without looking for spectacle as the result, also to recuperate the importance of the composition and detail of facades, without setting aside the fundamental compromise that architecture has with history, with the city and with its occupants.