Cini Boeri e il progetto esistenziale

Cini Boeri has been one of the leading female exponents of Italian architecture and design since the Second World War. Enciclopedia del saper fare explores the main features that have characterised her work, from the years spent in Marco Zanuso’s studio to the opening of her own studio. Cini Boeri’s project has always been characterised by her willingness to adhere to a profession, that of the architect, which after World War II was anything but a profession for women. She expressed the strength and obstinacy to carry it through to the end. Her projects show in their fullness, that existential value made up of human and natural relationships that are inextricably intertwined. Not only the people who live there but also the landscape and vegetation, become the main elements of her will to design. The relationship with the natural context is manifested first in the Rotonda house (La Maddalena, Sassari 1966/1967) and in the Bunker house (La Maddalena, Sassari 1967), and finally in the project for a House in the woods (Osmate, 1969). The latter, in particular, achieves maximum integration with all living beings: human and vegetable. The plant represents the free articulation and unraveling through the birch trees of the forest. The interior spaces lose their centrality, each room gains its privileged relationship with nature.