Seat of the War Veteran Invalids Association

The residential building, without a portico and built on the city walls in 1927, is the work of Giuseppe Vaccaro. The architect, who studied at the local School of Engineers, was influenced by his contact with Marcello Piacentini, and here engages in a reinterpretation of eclecticism with a modern twist. The so-called ‘other modernity’ is the placid and traditionalist alternative to the radical ‘rationalism’ that Vaccaro himself tried to apply to other works later on, such as the headquarters of the Faculty of Engineering. The building was constructed using quality materials and the apartments are anything but working class.