Aldo Andreani

The massive and controversial renovation of the municipal buildings that took place in the forties of the twentieth century is the work of architect Aldo Andreani from Mantua. His style can be defined as architectural eclecticism, a style that, in the more general context of modernism, mixes references to very different periods, creating something that is almost exotic. Indeed the motifs from the past are merged following aesthetic, not functional, criteria. The past itself is reinterpreted and looked at with modern eyes, seen as something mythic, the way the first films at the beginning of the twentieth century were viewed.