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The Grassi fonds (1930-1985)

  1. L. Grassi, Veduta di un cortile della Ca’ Granda di Milano, 1944
  2. Cantiere alla Ca’ Granda di Milano, fine anni Quaranta
  3. Cantiere alla Ca’ Granda di Milano, fine anni Quaranta

Liliana Grassi (1923 - 1985)

Architect, full professor in restoration at Politecnico di Milano from 1964. She worked on a number of important projects including the restoration of Ospedale Maggiore del Filarete and later adaptation work on the new Università Statale di Milano building.

The fonds comprises of 6 document series: 1. School and university education (1930-1948); 2. Personal papers (1940-1985); 3. Freelance work (1936-1985); 4. Teaching work (1934-1985); 5. Graphic material (1941-1985); 6. Printed publications. The Graphics materials series comprises photograph albums, slides, positives, negatives, photographic plates, free hand sketches and technical plates conserved separately.

Held at the Archivi Storici since July 2011.

Additional documentation
The fonds inventory is published on Archivista http://www.archimistaweb.polimi.it/groups/Polimi-ArchiviStorici/ and on the website Lombardia Archivi https://lombardiarchivi.servizirl.it/

Description in SIUSA and the SAN-Architecture portal.
The homogeneous corpus made up of the book fonds set out in the university OPAC can be accessed by the public via the university's library services.