Leonardo Ricci

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Leonardo Ricci (born June 8, 1918 in Rome , † September 29, 1994 in Venice ) was an Italian architect.

Ricci graduated from the Liceo Michelangelo of Florence in 1936 and graduated from the University of Florence with a diploma in architecture (1941). Afterwards Giovanni Michelucci employed him as an assistant and, until 1946, in his architectural office. Ricci taught at Italian universities and in the USA; he was critical of Le Corbusier and advocated a social and landscape-bound architecture. In 1957 he received a gold medal at the Milan Triennale. His (posthumously realized) main work is the monumental Palace of Justice (Florence) .

At the suggestion of the Waldensian pastor Tullio Vinay , Ricci himself, who comes from a Waldensian family, built the Agape ecumenical meeting center near Prali in 1946 and the Monte degli Ulivi building complex in Riesi , Sicily, for the Servizio Cristiano social institution from 1963 to 1966 .

literature

  • L. Ricci, Palazzo di Giustizia a Novoli , in "Zodiac", 5, March 1991, p. 203.
  • Bruno Zevi , Leonardo Ricci , in "Zodiac", 16, September 1996, pp. 33, 156-159.
  • Giovanni Bartolozzi, "Leonardo Ricci - lo spazio inseguito", Testo & immagine, Torino 2004
  • C. Vasic Vatovic, Leonardo Ricci architetto "esistenzialista" , Edifir, Firenze 2005.
  • R. Romanelli, Scheda su Leonardo Ricci , in Guida agli archivi di architetti e ingegneri del Novecento in Toscana , a cura di E. Insabato, C. Ghelli, Edifir, Firenze 2007, pp. 312-317
  • Michele Costanzo, Leonardo Ricci e l'idea di spazio comunitario , Quodlibet, Macerata 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Ricci, Leonardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1994
Place of death Venice