Casa Maria Bottero / Umberto Riva
From Spazio:
Casa Maria Bottero is an apartment designed by Umberto Riva for his family on the top floor of an eight-story housing cooperative on Via Paravia, in Milan, Italy. Riva worked on the project from 1965 to 1967 and Giorgio Casali photographed the completed work in 1969 for publication in the architecture magazine Domus and, a few months later, in Zodiac.
In the fall of 2023, Maria Bottero showed us around her home. Her words highlight some of the most poetic elements of Riva’s design and accompany the photographs of Allegra Martin and Francesco Paleari who, for the first time since 1969, have fully documented the home’s interiors and objects collected over the years. The building and Casa Maria Bottero are considered Umberto Riva’s first major project.
The design of the book was created by zoll, with texts written by Maria Bottero, and drawings by Sara Merlotti. The editorial coordination was made by Elisa Di Nofa, the photolithography by Francesco Paleari, and the translations by Maka Language Consulting.
