Giuseppe Pagano

Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig (* 1896 as Giuseppe or Joseph Pogatschnig in Poreč , Austria-Hungary , today Croatia ; † April 22, 1945 in Mauthausen ) was an Italian architect and journalist of Croatian origin.

Life

Pogatschnig, who had attended the Italian-language lyceum in Trieste , fled to Italy in 1914 and served as a volunteer with an Austrian passport in the Italian army during the First World War , taking the Italian translation of his Croatian surname Pogatschnig (= the heather) as his surname: Pagano .

In 1924 Pagano decided to study architecture at the Turin Polytechnic . In 1927 he was appointed director of the Turin International Exhibition. In 1928 he built the Gualino office building in Turin . Pagano was a co-founder of Gruppo 7 , from which the rationalist architectural movement Movimento Italiano per l'Architettura Razionale (MIAR) emerged. In 1930 he took over the management of the architecture magazine Casabella in Milan together with Edoardo Persico , which he held until 1943. Together with Gio Ponti , he organized the Milan Triennale in 1933 and 1936. From 1940 to 1943 he was editor-in-chief of the architecture magazine Domus .

Pagano had been a member of the Fascist Party since 1927, but by the 1930s he increasingly distanced himself from its ideology and left the party again in 1942. In 1943 he joined the Resistance and was arrested in November 1943. After he escaped from the prison in Brescia, he was arrested again in 1944 and taken to the Mauthausen concentration camp , where he died shortly before the end of the war.