Guido Pelizzari

Guido Pelizzari (* 13. January 1898 in Adro at Brescia ; † 1978 in Bolzano ) was an Italian architect who especially during the fascism central construction of rationalism in Bolzano - including the headquarters of the Fascist Party of Italy - realized, but also in the After the war it was very productive in Bolzano and in South Tyrol .

Pelizzari completed his university studies in Venice and Modena and gained his first professional experience with Le Corbusier in Paris before he began to teach at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice; among others there was one Carlo Scarpa to his students.

1934 Pelizzari, now already a party member from the fascist official mayor appointed Luciano Miori to Bolzano to the land use plan of Marcello Piacentini to revise. After the Second World War he was also responsible for Bolzano's reconstruction plan from 1958 and numerous private building projects in Bolzano up to 1976, where he worked as an architect and artistic consultant for the Bolzano city administration until the 1960s. Individual buildings by Pelizzari were also built in Venice, Rome , Pesaro , Bruneck , Seis am Schlern , Kaltern and Steinmannwald .

Works (selection)

The Bolzano Christ the King Church immediately after its construction, around 1940

• Tomb for Giovan Battista Tonini, Bolzano Municipal Cemetery , 1934
• Christ the King's Church in Bozen, 1938/40
  • the church tower was added in 1956/58, also based on a design by Pelizzari
• Casa Littoria in Bolzano, 1939/42
• Petroli Società Adriatica petrol station on Verdiplatz, Bozen, 1949/52
• Parliament building in Bolzano, 1953
• Radio house of Rai Südtirol on Mazziniplatz, Bozen, 1959/60

Publications

• La casa per l'Alto Adige: Concorso per la progettazione di edifici tipo, destinati alla città e alla provincia di Bolzano. A cura dell'Unione provinciale fascista di Bolzano dei sindacati professionisti e artisti. With a foreword by the fascist prefect Giuseppe Mastromattei. Bolzano: Società italiana tipografica editrice 1936.
• Lo sviluppo urbanistico di Bolzano , in: La rinascita dell'Alto Adige. Bolzano 1937.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ La Provincia di Bolzano (Südtiroler Zeitung of the Fascist Party) names him in its edition of May 25, 1934, p. 5, "camerata" , who also leads a party event in Vahrn .

literature

• La Fabbrica del Tempo / Die Zeitfabrik (Ed.): Razionalismi. Percorsi dell'abitare - Living appropriately, Bolzano / Bozen 1930–40 . Bolzano 2015.
• Hannes Obermair , Fabrizio Miori, Maurizio Pacchiani (eds.): Lavori in Corso - The Bozner Freiheitsstraße . La Fabbrica del Tempo - The Time Factory, Bozen 2020, ISBN 978-88-943205-2-7 .