The Territory of the Project and Its Languages

Abstract

In this article Gianni Contessi recalls the figure of Enzo Frateili, tracing a portrait that highlights the professional and human qualities, the family context in which he was formed and, above all, the cultural connections of this architect from Rome, marked by the disciplinary transversality of a career passed between teaching, conferences and prestigious assignments. Critic, historical and theoretical protagonist of industrial design, Frateili – who considered the design world as a totalizing universe – thus emerge among the key figures of the Italian design culture of the decades of the seventies and eighties of the last century.