Gustavo Giovannoni

Church of SS. Angeli Custodi in Rome ( Monte Sacro , formerly Città Giardino Aniene), 1922–1925

Gustavo Giovannoni (born January 1, 1873 in Rome , † July 15, 1947 there ) was an Italian architect , building historian and monument conservator . As a university lecturer, architectural historian and critic, he was one of the most influential personalities of his time in the field of architecture.

From 1899 he taught at the Scuola di Applicazione per gli Ingegneri in Rome, initially as an assistant, from 1912 as a lecturer, from 1914 as an associate professor. In 1919, with the establishment of the Scuola di Architettura di Roma , full professor of monument preservation and headed the Scuola from 1927 to 1935, which in 1931 became the first faculty of architecture in Italy under the name Facoltà di Architectura at the University of La Sapienza .

In 1921 he founded the magazine Architettura e Arti decorative together with Marcello Piacentini .

The idea of ​​“ambientismo” formulated by Giovannoni in 1913 was in the service of careful urban development and was primarily directed against futurism , which sought to destroy structures that had evolved over time. Architecture and urban planning were placed in a historical and geographical continuity in "ambientismo".

Buildings (selection)

• Peroni Brewery , Rome, 1908–1912
• Quartiere della Garbatella (urban development), Rome, 1920
• Città Giardino Aniene (Urban Planning), Rome, 1920
• Sacro Cuore, Salerno, 1922–23 (not realized)
• SS. Angeli Custodi, Rome, 1922–24
• San Giovanni, Formia, 1933–53 (realized by Giuseppe Zander)

Fonts (selection)

• Luigi Monzo: Ricordo dell'antico. Gustavo Giovannoni e la chiesa dei Santi Angeli Custodi a Roma. In: Giuseppe Bonaccorso and Francesco Moschini (eds.): Gustavo Giovannoni e l'architetto integrale. Atti del convegno internazionale. Rome 2019, pp. 339-344.
• La sala termale della villa liciniana e le cupole Romane , in: Annali della Società degli Ingegneri e degli Architetti Italiani 19, 1904, pp. 165–201.
• La tecnica della costruzione presso i romani , Rome 1925.

literature

• Daniela Esposito: Giovannoni, Gustavo. In: Stefan Heid, Martin Dennert (Hrsg.): Personal Lexicon for Christian Archeology. Researchers and personalities from the 16th to the 21st century . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2620-0 , Vol. 1, pp. 580-581.