Building Tresigallo: The City of Edmondo Rossoni (1933-1939)

Between 1933 and 1939 Minister Edmondo Rossoni transformed his hometown, a modest village, into a modern center of industrialized agriculture. Rossoni wanted to experiment a new economic, political, and social model within the Ferrara countryside and, at the same time, aimed to consolidate his power over the territory. The Minster asked the young and trusted engineer Carlo Frighi to give substance to his project. A provincial construction site was quickly transformed into a dynamic workshop that attracts many workers and involves designers and craftsmen from all over Italy. This has emerged from a bibliographic and archival survey that refocused the history of a town that still confronts, through its architecture, its history, and a difficult legacy.