Angiolo Mazzoni

Angiolo Mazzoni (born May 21, 1894 in Bologna , † September 28, 1979 in Rome ) was an Italian engineer and architect. He shaped the style of post and railway buildings during the fascist epoch of Italy .

Life

Mazzoni was born as the son of the Sienese couple Adalgisa del Grande and Ciro Mazzoni, civil servants in the postal and telegraph service. In 1905, the year the State Railway Company was founded , the family moved to Rome. From 1910 Angiolo Mazzoni attended the Regio Istituto Tecnico Leonardo da Vinci there , the first school in Rome with a technical-scientific orientation. In 1914 he enrolled at the engineering school Scuola di applicazione per ingegneri di Roma and received his degree in civil engineering there in 1919. Until 1921 he worked as an assistant at this university. Parallel to his university studies, he did his military service from 1915 to 1918 in the directorate of the military building authority. Mazzoni received early architectural influences through his work in the office of Marcello Piacentini , where he worked for over a year from 1920. The monumental buildings designed by Piacentini in the historical style influenced Mazzoni's early architectural designs - Piacentini's close proximity to fascism, which began in the 1920s, was also decisive for Mazzoni's further career.

In April 1921 he was initially hired by Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), the Italian state railway, for a temporary job as an engineer in Milan. In November of that year he got a trial job as an engineer in Bologna, where he began working on his first architectural designs. These include the train station in San Donnino (Fidenza) and some residential buildings for employees of the railway company in Bologna.

In December 1921 he married Maria Bozzato. This marriage resulted in two children: Elisa (born September 2, 1923) and Marcello (born April 7, 1927), who was killed in a car accident in Bogotà at the age of 21.

In 1922 Mazzoni got a permanent position at FS in Bologna. Moving to this city enabled Mazzoni to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti Bologna , where he received his diploma in architecture in 1923.

In 1924 he was transferred to Rome and worked in the general management of the FS, which also included the State Post and Telegraph Company. In the period that followed, Mazzoni mainly planned post and railway buildings, such as the expansion of the Brenner train station from 1925 to 1926 , which was officially inaugurated in 1930. In 1926 he was promoted to "first class engineer" ( Ispettore di prima classe ). At the same time he joined the Fascist Party of Italy . He designed numerous public buildings in Italy between the wars. After the end of fascism in Italy, he moved to Colombia . From 1948 to 1950 he taught as an architecture professor at the University of Bogotá and was also a consultant for the construction of the Ibagué-Armenia railway line. From 1951 he headed the construction department of the Colombian telephone company. In addition, he worked as an architect for public, private and church clients. In May 1963 he returned to Rome, where he lived in Via Savoia and died on September 28, 1979. His archive is kept in the Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto .

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Initially influenced by Josef Hoffmann , whose Austrian pavilion he had seen at the international art exhibition in Rome in 1911, Mazzoni turned to Futurism . In May 1933 he officially announced his entry into the futurist movement in the magazine Futurismo . In 1934 he published a manifesto on futuristic architecture ( Manifesto Futurista dell'Architettura Aerea ) together with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Mino Somenzi .

His works are characterized by a versatile formal language, ranging from futurism to constructivism . Due to his stubborn adherence to fascism, his importance as an architect has been misunderstood until recently.

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  The Bolzano station , 1928

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  Post office in Palermo, 1931

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  Post office in La Spezia , 1933

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  Post office in Sabaudia, 1934

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  Post office in Sabaudia , 1934

Post office building

• 1927: Nuoro post office
• 1927–1929: Post office in Ragusa
• 1927–1929: Post office in Ferrara
• 1929: Main Post Office in Trento
• 1930: Post office in Grosseto
• 1931: Post office in Massa (Tuscany)
• 1931: Post office in Bergamo
• 1931: Post office in Palermo
• 1932: Post office in Gorizia
• 1933: Post office in La Spezia
• 1932–1934: Post office in Sabaudia
• 1932–1934: Post Office in Latina
• 1932- 1935 : Post Office in Pola
• 1932: Post office in Agrigento
• 1932–1933: Post Office in Pistoia
• 1933: Post Office in Varese
• 1934: Post office in Trento
• 1934: Post office in Roma Ostia

Railway building

• 1925: Dopolavoro Ferroviario in Via Bari in Rome (with Efisio Vodret)
• 1927–1929: Heating system and signal box in Firenze Santa Maria Novella station
• 1927–1928: Bozen train station
• 1929: Houses along the railway lines in South Tyrol
• 1929–1934: Latina Railway Station
• 1934: Reggio nell'Emilia central station
• 1934–1936: Trient railway station
• 1936: Siena Central Station
• 1937–1938: Reggio di Calabria main train station
• 1937: Montecatini train station in Monsummano Terme
• 1939–1940: Messina Central Station
• 1937: Roma Tiburtina train station
• 1943: marshalling yard and customs building in Rome - San Lorenzo

Other buildings

• 1925–1926: Colonia Rosa Maltoni Mussolini in Calambrone ( Pisa )
• 1927–1928: Residential buildings for railway workers, Klausen
• 1927–1928: Residential buildings for railway workers, Merano
• 1929: House of Fascism "Enea Guarneri" in Passirano ( Brescia )
• 1935–1936: Istituto industriale alla Garbatella, Rome
• 1935: Villino Falcone "Il Castagno" in Grottaferrata (Rome)
• 1955–1982: Maria Reina Cathedral , Barranquilla
• 1957: General Roa residence in Colombia
• 1957–1958: Mariela Lòpez Gomez residence in Colombia (with JM Gomez Meja)

urban planning

• 1950: Planning for Heldenplatz in Bogotá

literature

• Katrin Albrecht: Angiolo Mazzoni. Italian modernist architect . Reimer, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-496-01562-8 .
• A. Capanna:  Mazzoni, Angiolo. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 72:  Massimino-Mechetti. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2009.
• Gerold Esser: Construction research on Angiolo Mazzoni's post office in Littoria / Latina (DOC file; 89 kB), lecture at the Koldewey Society , Breslau 2006
• Edith Neudecker: The Italian Post Office Construction During Fascism (1922-1944) , dissertation at the Technical University of Munich 2004
• Barbara Weiss: Angiolo Mazzoni´s futurist / fascist architecture. Edition SITES, 1988
• Graziella Fittipaldi: Italian Futurist Architecture: Angiolo Mazzoni and the Study Case of Littoria Post Office . In: Karl-Eugen Kurrer , Werner Lorenz , Volker Wetzk (eds.): Proceedings of the Third International Congress on Construction History . Neunplus, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-936033-31-1 , pp. 603-610 (PDF).

Web links

• Publications by and about Angiolo Mazzoni in the OPAC des Servizio bibliotecario nazionale (SBN)
• Standard entry in SBN-OPAC
• Angiolo Mazzoni. L'architetto delle Poste e dei Telegrafi , essay by Raffaella Picello (Italian)
• Collezione Angiolo Mazzoni (collection of historical photographs of Mazzoni's works) of the Casa dell'Architettura , Latina (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fondo Angiolo Mazzoni. Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (Italian, accessed March 30, 2018).
2. ↑ cf. Richard A. Etlin: Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, The romantic legacy, Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York 1994, p. 4
3. ↑ cf. Katrin Albrecht: Angiolo Mazzoni, architect of Italian modernism, Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2017, p. 97
4. ^ Manifesto by FT Marinetti, Angiolo Mazzoni, Mino Somenzi (Italian)
5. ↑ Catedral María Reina y Auxiliadora de Barranquilla dedicada a la Santísima Virgen María Reina. Cronología. Website of the Archdiocese of Barranquilla, Spanish ( Memento of February 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).