Death Anniversary: Marcello Piacentini — May 18, 1960
Photo: "Capitolium" 1933, p. 607, — Public domain (Wikimedia Commons) Marcello Piacentini died in Rome on 18 May 1960, at the end of a long illness, in the city where he was born and where he built more than any architect of his generation. He was the son of Pio Piacentini, who had raised the Palazzo delle Esposizioni on via Nazionale, and he taught town planning at the University of Rome from 1929. His last large work was the Palazzo dello Sport at the EUR, designed with Pier Luigi Nervi for the Rome Olympics and finished in 1960, the year of his death.
Dates verified on the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Treccani).
Full biography on Cultural Heritage Online: Marcello Piacentini (1881–1960).
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