Gruppo 7

{{Short description|Group of Italian Rationalist architects}} thumb|''Gruppo 7'' logo (1929) '''Gruppo 7''' was a group of Italian architects who wanted to reform architecture by the adoption of Rationalism.<ref name="Domus">{{Cite web |title=Italian rationalism |url=https://www.domusweb.it/en/movements/italian-rationalism.html |access-date=26 December 2025 |website=Domus |language=en-GB}}</ref> It was founded in 1926 by Luigi Figini, Guido Frette, {{ill|Sebastiano Larco Silva|it}}, Gino Pollini, Carlo Enrico Rava, Giuseppe Terragni, and Ubaldo Castagnoli, who was replaced the following year by Adalberto Libera.<ref name=treccani>{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/gruppo-7|title=Gruppo 7|website=Enciclopedia Treccani|access-date=20 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Italian rationalism |url=https://www.domusweb.it/en/movements/italian-rationalism.html |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=www.domusweb.it |language=en-gb}}</ref><ref name="Domus" />

Gruppo 7 declared that its intent was to strike a middle ground between classicism and the industrially-inspired architecture of the early 20th-century.<ref name=treccani/><ref>{{Cite book|first=Bruno|last=Zevi|author-link=Bruno Zevi|title=Storia dell'architettura moderna|publisher=Einaudi|place=Turin|year=2001|pages=182–187}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|first1=Giorgio|last1=Ciucci|first2=Giorgio|last2=Muratore|title=Storia dell'architettura italiana. Il primo Novecento|place=Milan|publisher=Electa|year=2004|pages=520–521}}</ref>

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Category:Architecture groups Category:20th-century Italian architects