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Marcello Guido: Architecture in Motion

By Rick Meghiddo on March 6, 2019 in Architecture

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From Calabria, in the southern tip of Italy, architect Marcello Guido sends a powerful message of ‘architecture in motion” expressed in concrete, steel, and glass. His poetry generates continuously changing perceptions of space.

© Marcello Guido. All Rights Reserved.
Piazza Antonio Toscano, Cosenza, 1999-2001
© Marcello Guido. All Rights Reserved.
Piazza Antonio Toscano, Cosenza, 1999-2001
© Marcello Guido. All Rights Reserved.
Piazza Antonio Toscano, Cosenza, 1999-2001

© Marcello Guido. All Rights Reserved.
Research Center for Albanian Linguistic Minorities, 1990-93
© Marcello Guido. All Rights Reserved.
Research Center for Albanian Linguistic Minorities, 1990-93
L’Architettura 533 – Cover

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Museum of Horse, Bisignano, 2002-04
© Marcello Guido. All Rights Reserved.
Museum of Horse, Bisignano, 2002-04
© Marcello Guido. All Rights Reserved.
Music Room, San Giorgio Albanese, Cosenza.1990-2007

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Apartments Building, Cosenza, 2004-06
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Apartments Building, Cosenza, 2004-06
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Marcello Guido

Apartment Tower. Cosenza, 2005-11
© Marcello Guido. All Rights Reserved.
Apartment Tower. Cosenza, 2005-11
© Marcello Guido. All Rights Reserved.
Apartment Tower. Cosenza, 2005-11

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Urban Requalification Via Vinciprova, Salerno, 2009
© Marcello Guido. All Rights Reserved.
© Marcello Guido. All Rights Reserved.

© Marcello Guido. All Rights Reserved.
© Marcello Guido. All Rights Reserved.
© Marcello Guido. All Rights Reserved.

© Marcello Guido. All Rights Reserved.
© Marcello Guido. All Rights Reserved.
© Marcello Guido. All Rights Reserved.

Born in Acri, Cosenza, in 1953, he studied architecture in Rome and graduated in 1977 cum laude under the tutorship of historian and critic of architecture, Bruno Zevi. In four decades he built projects and participated in design competitions that brought him recognition in Italy. This presentation is intended to bring to the attention of the general public the remarkable work of Marcello Guido.

At first sight, his work could be mistakenly classified under Deconstructivism, a movement which appeared in the 1980s under the influence of French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Architects frequently associated with Deconstructivism includes Daniel Libeskind, Frank Gehry, and Bernard Tschumi. But unlike these, Guido’s architecture is deeply rooted in history.

Borromini is clearly present in the fluidity of Guido’s lines, as it is Wright’s philosophy of Organic Architecture, that anticipated the Netherlands-based De Stijl movement, also known as Neoplasticism.

Guido reinterprets history in the spirit of Bruno Zevi’s Modern Language of Architecture, which advocates asymmetry and dissonance, antiperspective three-dimensionality, the use of space in time as perceived in movement, and the reintegration between building, city, and territory.

My discovery of Guido’s architecture occurred last summer in Rome while visiting the exhibition celebrating Zevi’s 100 birthday, focused on Zevi’s influence on many important Italian architects. This late “discovery” reminded me when, as a student of architecture in Rome, I encounter the work of Luigi Pellegrin. Then as now, my reaction was instantaneous, non-intellectual: this is an Architect with the capital A.

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Rick Meghiddo Rick Meghiddo is an architect and filmmaker. Through ArchiDocu - see www.ArchiDocu.com - he brings his "architect eye" to help architects to convey their concepts and vision, institutions to convey their social and environmental goals, and educators to express the meaning and value of architecture, design and art.

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