Articolare l’individuale e il collettivo. L’architettura delle colonie per l’infanzia del dopoguerra italiano (1945-1965)

Abstract

In post-war Italy, the requests for renewal of childhood educational practices and the search for architectural identity converge and a change emerges in the conception of the architecture of holiday camps. The essay provides an overview of the diffusion of the colonies in the Italian context, and, through the analysis of two architecture competitions, focuses on the relationship between socialization dynamics, educational practices and the articulation of the architectural spaces of buildings, in the light of the dual individual and collective existential dimension that the child experiences during the stay in the colony.