History

Villa Marignoli is perhaps the most successful work by Giulio Magni, one of the most interesting Italian architects of the beginning of ’900.

Grandnephew of Valadier, Magni was the creator of some of the great construction works of the early decades of the century: the Ministry of the Navy (1911), competition for the National Gallery of Modern Art at Villa Giulia (1911), the public housing Testaccio (1903 – 1914), the Peace Palace in The Hague, some houses of great architectural interest such as the cottage Almajano and Villa Pacelli, Via Aurelia.

Villa Marignoli volume is divided into primary and secondary in some bodies. Entirely resolved by the design of the marble seats inside the brick surface, its language is inspired by Nordic medieval building. In the second half of the ’70s was restored in its present state.

The restructuring was a long and complex process. The buildings were dilapidated and in critical conditions. The main one was for the most part with no roof, demolished at the edge overlooking the garden, had almost all the floors and stairs and smashed unsafe, the smaller building, although in a less precarious, the roof was unsafe and the floors caved.

The original complex consisted of a main building (now building “A”) used as a dwelling, and a secondary building used for services (building “B”), connected by a garden.