Gaetano cook

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Koch (left) with Manfredi and Pio Piacentini

Gaetano Koch (born January 9, 1849 in Rome ; † May 14, 1910 there ) was an Italian architect of historicism .

Life

Koch's family originally came from Tyrol , his grandfather was the painter Joseph Anton Koch . His son Augusto from his marriage to Cassandra Ranaldi was also a painter and became the father of Gaetano. Gaetano studied architecture and engineering and found a rich field of activity in his hometown during the Risorgimento epoch , after Rome became the capital of unified Italy in 1870 . Koch built around thirty representative buildings in Rome, mostly for the aristocracy and the upper class . Stylistically, he was based on the masters of the Renaissance, such as the model of the Palazzo Farnese .

His main works include the Palazzo Koch , the seat of the Italian central bank Banca d'Italia , and the two semicircular and symmetrically arranged buildings on the Piazza della Repubblica (Rome) .

Koch also designed the Palazzo Mengarini and the Palazzo Margherita , today the seat of the United States Embassy on Via Veneto . Gaetano Koch worked a lot with his brother Ottaviano Koch. When the monument was built for Vittorio Emanuele II , Koch was the site manager and is said to have exhausted himself so much that he died of pneumonia. Gaetano Koch was married to Matilde Fraschetti and had two sons with her.

literature

  • Loretta Mozzoni, Stefano Santini (Ed.): Il disegno e le architetture della città eclettica, (Proceedings of the 4th Convegno di architettura dell'eclettismo, Jesi, Italy, July 2-3, 2001) especially p. 39, Liguori Editore Srl . 2004, ISBN 88-207-3653-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Cook, Gaetano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect of historicism
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1910
Place of death Rome