Filippo Alison: The contribution to the theoretical definition and didactics of interiors

The notoriety of Filippo Alison's activity (1930-2015) in the field of architecture and interior and furniture design through the important experience of the “I Maestri” collection for Cassina does not correspond to an adequate critical systematization of the important contribution to the teaching of interior architecture, in the University of Naples, but also at a national level, thanks to its activity in coordinating national researches, to his work within the PhD course at the Milan Polytechnic, from which working tables and conferences have emerged, connoting the specific approach of the Italian school in interior architecture and its theoretical statute over time. Alison's theoretical contribution, both in teaching as well as in the design activity, resorts to a conceptual filter to define the scope of the interiors: not using objective grids to define the design practice according to where and how much and how it takes place, Interior architecture is not limited to the definition of the terminal aspects of architecture, but it tackles the radical nature of space, understanding architecture as a unitary chain in which interior and exterior converge. This is evident after the lesson received from modern culture which defines the spatial layout as the main factor characterizing architecture, in which the details underline its identity, making it available for living.