Casa alle Zattere

Ignazio Gardella's modern apartment house on the Zattere waterfront, Venice (1958–1962), a rare modern insertion in the old city.

Core Features

• Five storeys on the Giudecca Canal, stepping down to four beside the church of the Spirito Santo.
• Brick-granule plaster over a biancone marble plinth, its deliberately irregular windows echoing older Venetian houses.
• 45°-tilted square windows light the service rooms; the canal-side floor is raised over semi-basement cellars.

Architectural Connections

• Ignazio Gardella: the leading Italian rationalist.
• Modern: postwar contextual modernism.
• European: Venetian conservation context.

Related Elements & Sites

Facade (element), Brick (material), Marble (material)