Narbolia rediscovers Vico Mossa, the architect divided between two worlds

Narbolia rediscovers Vico Mossa , architect, landscape scholar, writer, essayist and photographer who crossed the twentieth century with his talent and his original projects.

He rediscovers distant memories linked to an intellectual divided between two microcosms of affections and values : Serramanna , his country of origin, and precisely Narbolia , the country where his mother was born, a much loved vacation spot as shown by "I Cabilli", the diary-book in which Mossa has poured the memories of a lifetime.

At the "Peppino Pippia" Multifunctional Center on Friday 9 September, starting at 6.30 pm, the meeting dedicated to the figure of the architect born in 1914 and died in Sassari at the age of 89 takes place on the initiative of the cultural association "Sa Curadoria" .

THE HOMAGE - Among others, his son Giangiuliano, also an architect, intervened. At the opening, the video “Nuralìa, the distant village of Vico Mossa” will be shown , created by the Cultural Services Center of Oristano together with the pupils of the primary and secondary school of Narbolia. "The film - underlines the president of the" Curadoria "association Andrea Vargiu - was born with the intention of highlighting the link between Vico Mossa and Nuralìa through the curiosity and amazement of today's Narbolian children and the same child Vico who remembers the pleasant stays in the country where the mother was born ". The director of Unla Marcello Marras and the teachers Maria Dessì and Caterina Firinu will present the aims of a project with a strong didactic value. The photographic exhibition "Vico Mossa architectural photographs" will then be inaugurated by the architecture archive "Vico Mossa" of Serramanna. Finally, the atmospheres of the book " I Cabilli " will be relived in the representation of the Narbolia theatrical group. On stage the actors Rita Meloni and Salvatore Sanna.

LIFE AND WORKS - Vico Mossa oversaw the restoration of the Cathedral and Palazzo dell'Artigianato in Sassari , the parish of San Basilio in Sennori , the basilica of San Gavino in Porto Torres and the projects of the parish churches of San Bartolomeo in Cagliar i , San Vincenzo de 'Paoli in Sassari and the Holy Family of Olbia , the tourist village La Valle dell'Erica and the hotel Il Gallo di Gallura in Santa Teresa Gallura. Also in Sassari he created the projects of the Hotel Turritania and Palazzo Bosazza. He set up the Sardinian pavilion in Rome and Turin on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the unification of Italy. To all this, in a very rich human and professional adventure, we add teaching at the Art Institute in Sassari and frequent collaborations with newspapers, including “L'Unione Sarda”, and magazines. Among his most significant works are Minor religious architecture in Sardinia (1953), Domestic architecture in Sardinia contribution to a history of the Mediterranean house (1957 and 1985), From nuraghi to rebirth (1961), Architecture and landscape in Sardinia (1982) , Sardinian handicraft (1983), History of architecture in Sardinia (1994). “Do you really think people are interested in your family history?” Is the question his wife Clara asks him.

Vico Mossa is on the verge of writing "I Cabilli" which he then brings to fruition by demonstrating that even private and personal events, when well told, have an extraordinary universal value.