Twenty century design drawings in Italy: the case of Aldo Morbelli and Carlo Mollino

This paper examines the relationships between Drawing and Project in the light of the work of two leading architects in the Turin panorama, Carlo Mollino and Aldo Morbelli. Peers, but different in education, temperament and design poetics, the two architects appear as original figures with respect to the national scene, in which the adhesion to international movements and schools goes hand in hand with the updating of graphic techniques. Their drawings, having great expressive quality, show creativity free from the trends of the time and at the same time anchored to the practices of build, and to a multiscalar and integral project's idea. In the Fifthies they were called to collaborate in the project of Auditorium RAI in Turin. In the Auditorium RAI drawing and design chase each other, just as the two poetics naturally blend into the unity of the project.