Casa Maria Bottero / Umberto Riva

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.

A project curated by Mariana Siracusa

Exhibition on view at Spazio in Via Lazzaro Spallanzani 19, Milan, From March 5 to May 25, 2024.
Book published alongside the exhibition.

Casa Maria Bottero / Umberto Riva. Photography Allegra Martin, Francesco Paleari, curated and published by Spazio, 2024, ph ©zoll

Pages: 80
Dimensions: 220 × 330 mm
Format: Softcover
Language: English
Year: 2024
Publisher: Spazio