The Porcheddu archive collection

Le fonds d’archives de l’entreprise Porcheddu

Vilma Fasoli

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Figure 1: Porcheddu letterhead

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Source: Archivio della Società Porcheddu, Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento dei Sistemi edilizi e territoriali

1Since the liquidation in the 1970s of the company owned by Giovanni Antonio Porcheddu (1860-1937), its archives have been housed in the library of the Department of Construction Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin (Politecnico di Torino). They cover nearly 2,600 reinforced concrete structures built by the firm between 1895 and 1933 using the Hennebique process. Nevertheless, a comparison of these 385 dossiers with the monthly list of structures completed, published in the trade journal Le Béton armé under the column heading “Travaux du Mois,” indicates that some files are missing from the archives in Turin.

2In 1977, with funding from Italy’s National Center for Research (CNR), the library compiled a printed index of the documents to facilitate research. Original project drawings, blueprint copies of them, and preliminary sketches are folded and stored in boxes according to the filing system the Porcheddu company used. As a result, each folder bears a catalogue number associated with a type of project, and, in addition to the drawings, contains the correspondence regarding the project, along with invoices and other accounting data, as well as advertising brochures published by product suppliers.


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