Enzo Fratelli. A Path in the Design Training Institutions

Abstract

This essay highlights the important role played by Enzo Frateili in teaching at the ISIAs in Rome and Florence between the mid-sixties and early death in 1993. A contribution that has proved to be fundamental for the same cultural renewal of the Istituto Superiore for the Artistic Industries, thanks also to its active participation in the Scientific Committees of the two school sites and as the chairman of the Scientific Committee in the case of Rome. With a long experience in the didactics that taught him from Trieste to Turin, and from Venice at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm, Frateili wanted to transfer interdisciplinary knowledge in the ISIA teaching plans in Rome and Florence, where the technological sciences covered a strategic role designing the designer. At the same time, they felt it necessary to experiment with different teaching models and to be autonomous from the traditional didactic way of architecture.