Temples for Industrious Lombards - Architecture by Mario Galvagni in Inveruno

On the Lombard plain between the Ticino river valley and the industrial outskirts of Milan, ensconced amid fields of crops, lies Inveruno, home to the architecture of Mario Galvagni. Each of these villas, designed between the 1960s and 1980s for local industrial families, is unique while still sharing certain characteristics with the others, including suspended shell structures, underground living rooms, and luminous domes. Photographed by Allegra Martin and Francesco Paleari, the architecture serves as the backdrop against which stories by Emmanuela Carbe and Paolo Colagrande take shape. A critical essay by Francesca Olivieri frames Galvagni's oeuvre.