Alcune opere di Giorgio Calza Bini all'EUR: la ricerca di una nuova identità per l'E42.

Giorgio Calza Bini was a character of architect-urban planner of the Italian Rationalism. He began his activity with two innovative projects fpr some highway stations near genoa (1934-1936) and a student hostel at the University of Rome Sapienza (1933 with F. Fariello and S. Muratori). Both the projects were published and noted by the academic and professional community. fter this encouraging prelude he partecipated to a lot of contests and projects both architectural and urban. The first period of activity ended with the Second World War and G. Calza Bini renovated his studies and his design, conserving his ability to apporoach complex planning from urban to local scale. In that years, starting from 1951, Cala Bini was called from Marcello Piacentini to help him in the 1942 Universal Rome Exibition area re-design (also known as E42, now EUR). During the war the exibition was cancelled and in the 1945 a lot of buildings were unfinished of even unrealized. G. Calza Bini specifically worked on the building guidelines, and, having completed them, he resigned and focused on the architectural design of a large number of residential and commercial buildings. Finally he had the unique chanche to explore his architectural desing in a guidelines context that he himself defined in the early stage of the E42/EUR redevelopment