Death Anniversary: Gino Coppedè — September 20, 1927

Gino Coppedè died in Rome on 20 September 1927, six days short of sixty-one, without seeing finished the quarter that carries his name. He was born in Florence on 26 September 1866, son of the wood-carver Mariano, and studied at the city’s school of industrial decorative arts from 1884 to 1891. His first large success was Castello Mackenzie in Genoa, commissioned as the restyling of a farmhouse by Evan Mackenzie, the Lloyd’s trustee in the city, and turned into something else entirely. From 1915, as architect to the Società Anonima Edilizia Moderna, he drew the Roman quarter behind piazza Quadrata, today piazza Buenos Aires: the palace known as degli Ambasciatori, with its great arch over via Dora, was finished in 1921, the buildings around piazza Mincio were designed between 1920 and 1924, and the villini to the north the year after.

Dates verified on the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Treccani).

Full biography on Cultural Heritage Online: Gino Coppedè (1866–1927).