La tutela a Milano dopo la guerra e la Liberazione: Giovanni Rocco commissario reggente della Soprintendenza ai monumenti (1945-46).

Giovanni Rocco (1877-1951), was called in 1945 by the National Liberation Committee to replace Gino Chierici at the head of the Soprintendenza ai Monumenti (Monuments Office) of Milan. Non-fascist, architect of academic formation, scholar of Pellegrino Tibaldi, he was just back from the ten-year experience of the direction of Rassegna di architettura, which he founded in 1929. His term of office was short (it was taken over by Guglielmo Pacchioni at the beginning of 1946), but full of initiatives, even controversial: he was part of the Consultative Commission for the new town master plan, directed the first works of reconstruction of the bombed Cenacolo, worked to expand the boundaries of State protection of existing buildings. The brief paper examines his work, in the wider context of Milan just after the war, a brief period characterized by innovative actions, at times unrealistic, destined in the following years to be overtaken by a reconstruction as pervasive as it was undisputed.