Giuseppe Capponi e Ischia. Nuovi spunti di ricerca

Giuseppe Capponi and Ischia: new ideas for research The contribution attempts to studyin a new perspective eighteen drawings of engineer and architect Giuseppe Capponi, known exponent of MIAR, preserved at the Accadernia Nazionale di San Luca, on the spontaneous architecture of Ischia. In the study will identify most of the buildings designed by Capponi in 1926-2S, mainly destroyed or altered today, and they come up with the draws can cataloging program and safeguard the engineer would have prefigured under the aegis of Associazione Artistica fra iCultori di Architettura, which in the same years engaging in a broad scientific program devoted to the analysis of so-called "minor architecture". Capponi attempts to work in Ischia also following the example of his friend, engineer and writer Edwin Cerio, who in the early twenties had promoted in Capri the first attempt at architecture and the local landscape preservation, as alleged in the proceedings of "Convegno del Paesaggio" of 1922 and reiterated in the articles published in "Architettura e Arti Decorative", magazine directed by Gustavo Giovannoni, which also publishes the Capponi ischitani drawings. It also shows how the Capponi drawings can be correlated with the corresponding rural architecture enhancement effort scarried out in the twenties and thirties by numerous Italian modernist architects and well synthetized by the exhibition conceived by Giuseppe Pagano at the VI Triennale of Milan in 1936.