Fregene's Abandoned Casa Albero Brutalist Masterpiece Documented

The Casa Sperimentale, also known as Casa Albero, is a brutalist architectural gem on the Roman coast in Fregene, built in the 1960s by architect Giuseppe Perugini and his wife Uga de Plaisant using reinforced concrete, glass, and steel. The futuristic modular structure has been abandoned for years. Raynaldo Perugini, the couple's son and also an architect, recalls the house as a family toy and a real-scale model where everyone proposed solutions. Now, architects and researchers Patrick Weber and Sabine Storp from The Bartlett School of Architecture in London, together with photographer Andy Tye and 3D-scanning firm ScanLAB, have documented the house for an exhibition at Weissenhof Gallery in Stuttgart. They emphasize its importance as experimental architecture that deserves preservation through documentation before it is lost entirely.