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Libertas, doorhandle in brass for the Milan Palace of Justice (1932)
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Piacentini (Rome 1881-1960) Architect and town planner, Piacentini obtained his first important professional recognition in 1907, when he won a competition for the planning of the centre of Bergamo, a project realized in 1927. Uniting, in an eclectic approach, a new use of classical architectural elements (arches, pillars and columns) and a genuine interest in European modernism (and especially the styilistic modules of the Viennese Secession), he elicited a vivacious debate with his design of the Italian pavilion at the International Exhibition of Bruxelles (1910) and above all for the project for the Cinema Corso in Rome (1915-1917). After the introduction of Fascism he abandoned international connotations, to become Italy's most important representative of Monumentalism. He received important public commissions from the regime, and was the author of an enormous number of important buildings in the thirties and forties, such as the Arch of triumph for the victims of the first world war (1923); the general arrangement of the Piazza della Vittoria, Genoa; the plan of the centre of Brescia (piazza della Vittoria, 1936); the rectorate building of the University of Rome (1936); the arrangement of via Roma at Turin (1931-1937); the Messina Courthouse (1928) and that of Milan (1931-1939). From 1938 to 1942 he held the position of general Commissary for architecture for the E42 project in Rome. In 1941, as part of the development plan which included the creation of the via della Conciliazione in Rome, he started the demolition of the ancient quarter known as "spina dei borghi" in front of piazza San Pietro. |
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