Designing Memory. The Studio BBPR: monuments and deportations. A journey through archival materials and Nanni Fontana's photographs

Event on the occasion of Giornata della Memoria

Saluti istituzionali
Donatella Sciuto, Rector of Politecnico di Milano

Institutional Greetings
Dario Venegoni, President of ANED, Associazione nazionale ex deportati nei campi nazisti
Nanni Fontana, Photojournalist
Maria Vittoria Capitanucci, Architectural Historian, Politecnico di Milano
Roberto Dulio, Architectural Historian, Politecnico di Milano, Rector's Delegate for the Archive, Library and Museum System

BBPR: is the acronym for a unique partnership of four architects who left their mark on the history of architecture and Italian culture: Gian Luigi Banfi, Lodovico Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti, and Ernesto Nathan Rogers. BBPR's anti-fascist activity led to their being among the founders of the Milanese Action Party, a commitment that marked their lives: Banfi and Belgiojoso, arrested, were deported to Mauthausen and Gusen, where Banfi died on April 11, 1945; Rogers, a Jew, was forced to flee to Switzerland, while Peressutti was called up for military service until May 1944. After the war, the three survivors resumed working together, maintaining the acronym in honor of Banfi. Protagonists of post-war architecture, they also dedicated themselves with great civic passion to the design and construction of the five memorials and monuments dedicated to the Italians killed in the Nazi camps, which will be illustrated in the meeting.

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