Giovanni Berlam

Giovanni Andrea Berlam (born 1823 in Trieste , Austrian Empire ; died 1892 , in Trieste, Austria-Hungary ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

Berlam studied civil engineering at the Vienna University of Technology from 1841 to 1845 under Professors Adam Burg , Josef Stummer and Ludwig Förster . In 1846 he supplemented his training with architecture at the Accademia di belle arti in Venice with Peter Noble . For the next five years he worked as an engineer for the public buildings of Trieste and restored a. a. the Praetor's Palace in Capodistria ( Koper ).

In 1850, he was commissioned by Spiridon Gopcevich , a merchant and banker of Serbian origin, to build a representative house on the Grand Canal . This eclectic Palazzo Gopcevich now houses the Trieste Theater Museum. He then developed plans for the construction or conversion of other houses and villas, including a. 1861 the Villa Sigmundt . In 1882 he designed the imperial pavilion for the first Austrian-Hungarian agricultural fair .

His more well-known buildings include the Casa Caccia in Trieste's Piazza Goldoni (1875) and the conversion of the Palazzo Mauroner into a theater .

As a co-founder of the Triestina Association for Art and Industry, he made a name for himself in the political, economic and cultural position of Trieste. Very frankly, he dared to reject awards from the Austrian government.

After his death in 1892, his son Ruggero Berlam continued the projects he had started.

Web links

• Voce su Giovanni Berlam sul Dizionario biografico Treccani .
• Buildings built by Berlam (Italian)