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Rationalist building
The building of the private Luigi Bocconi university was designed between 1937-41 by architect Giuseppe Pagano with Gian Giacomo Predeval. Inspired by the plan for the Bauhaus school by Walter Gropius, it is one of the buildings in Milan most influenced by European rationalism.
The complex, to which many additions were made after WW2, occupies the entire block between Via Sarfatti and Via Toniolo. It is in the shape of a cross: the arms are used for services and connections, while the ends provide office space and classrooms.
The open arrangement of the various sections, the connections between the volumes and the white surfaces marked at regular intervals by square windows lined with lythoceramic tiles divide up the rooms of the university through rational architecture conceived by Pagano as "service" and as an answer to concrete needs.
| Neighborhood: | Navigli-Porta Ticinese |
| Address: | Via Sarfatti, 25 |
| Milan, 20136 | |
| Phone: | +39 0258361 |
| Nearest train: | Tram 9-29-30 |