Birth Anniversary: Piero Portaluppi — March 19, 1888
Piero Portaluppi was born on 19 March 1888: the eclectic designer who became the emblem of the wealthy Milanese bourgeoisie of the 1920s and 1930s.
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Stefano Vigolo
Stefano Vigolo photographs and documents Italian architecture of the interwar decades — the years known in Italy as the Ventennio — from Rationalism and Art Déco to the buildings that fall between the guidebooks. He is a researcher of the period.
Contributions: 561 articles · 145 heritage places · 687 events · 12 itineraries · 249 photographs
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Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
- Stazione di servizio A.G.I.P. (u00a0 Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli ) oggi Stazione di servizio Tamoil - Asmara , Eritrea
- La torre e il treno - Giorgio De Chirico - 1934 ( Stefano Vigolo )
- Villino oggi Sede dell' Ambasciata Etiope in Eritrea - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. Pietro Del Fabro - 1938
- Fontana di Ghezzabanda oggi Fontana Mai Jah Jah - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. Lorenzo Azzolini - 1939
- Palazzo Manifatturau00a0Tabacchi oggi Palazzo British e American Tobacco Eritrea - Asmara , Eritrea. 1938
- Edificio abitazione , Quartiere Alfa Romeo - Asmara , Eritrea
- Particolare Bar all'interno del Cinema Odeon - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. Giuseppe Zacche e Giuseppe Borziani - 1937
- Fabbrica Alfa Romeo - Asmara , Eritrea - 1937
- Cinema Odeon - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. Giuseppe Zacche e Giuseppe Borziani - 1937
- Edificio abitazione e negozi - Asmara , Eritrea
- Caserma della M.V.S.N ( Milizia Volontaria Sicurezza Nazionale ) oggi Palazzo della Banca d'Eritrea - Asmara , Eritrea
- Cinema Augustus oggi Cinema Capitol - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. R. Saviele - 1938
Death Anniversary: Piero Portaluppi — July 6, 1967
Piero Portaluppi died on 6 July 1967: the architect known for mixing Déco, classical elegance and modernity in the same building.
Birth Anniversary: Giovanni Muzio — February 12, 1893
Giovanni Muzio was born in Milan on 12 February 1893: the man who began the Novecento movement in architecture, known for his stylised classicism.
Birth Anniversary: Adalberto Libera — July 16, 1903
Adalberto Libera was born at Villa Lagarina on 16 July 1903: one of the founders of Gruppo 7 and a pivotal figure of Italian modern architecture.
Birth Anniversary: Angiolo Mazzoni — May 21, 1894
Angiolo Mazzoni was born on 21 May 1894: chief architect of the Ministry of Communications, who designed a generation of railway stations and post offices.
Death Anniversary: Angiolo Mazzoni — September 28, 1979
Angiolo Mazzoni died on 28 September 1979: the Futurist-Rationalist designer who was a leading figure in the building of the new towns of the Pontine Marshes.
Birth Anniversary: Galileo Chini — December 2, 1873
Galileo Chini was born on 2 December 1873: the artist, painter and ceramicist who shaped the decorative apparatus of Liberty and Art Déco in Italy.
Birth Anniversary: Duilio Cambellotti — May 10, 1876
Duilio Cambellotti was born in Rome on 10 May 1876: an artist and sculptor whose work is inseparable from the drainage and settlement of the Agro Pontino.
Birth Anniversary: Giuseppe Pagano — August 20, 1896
Giuseppe Pagano was born on 20 August 1896: the rigorous Rationalist theorist, architect and long-serving editor of the magazine Casabella.
Birth Anniversary: Gino Coppedè — September 26, 1866
Gino Coppedè was born on 26 September 1866: the visionary Florentine designer who invented an eclectic Liberty entirely his own, and built a quarter of Rome in it.