Luigi Luiggi

Luigi Luiggi (born August 3, 1856 in Genoa , † February 1, 1931 in Rome ) was a world-wide architect and senator of the Italian parliament.

life and work

Luigi Luiggi was internationally active as an engineer in the construction of city and port facilities. He pursued projects in Italy, Africa and South America. He headed the cabinet at the Ministry of Public Works from 1892 to 1893. In 1912, on behalf of the Italian government, he presented the plan for the urban development of Tripoli in Libya . In Argentina he was the planner and founder of Puerto Belgrano . In 1921 Luiggi was elected as a member of the Camera dei deputati in the constituency of Genoa for the 26th legislative period , and in September 1924 he was appointed senator .

Works

I porti di Hull, di Grimsby e di Goole sul fiume Humber. Rome 1890
Docking facilities: towing, floating and dry docks for large ships in Italy. Brussels 1911 (also: Cales de halage, bassins flottants et formes de radoub existant en Italie pour les grands navires : rapport par L. Luiggi au 12.e Congrès International de Navigation, Philadelphie 1912, 2.e section: navigation maritime, 1. e question)
Works for the Improvement of Navigable Estuaries. 1915 ( Paper for the International Congress of Engineers in San Francisco , September 1915 )

Awards

Web links

LUIGGI, Luigi . In: Enciclopedia Italiana . Rome 1934 (online version at treccani.it)
Luigi Luiggi on the website of the Italian Senate
Entry in the Portale storico of the Camera dei deputati
Publications by Luigi Luiggi in the Opac des Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale

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↑ Fassil Demissie: Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa. Interwined and Contested Histories. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2012, p. 41 ( ISBN 9780754675129 )
↑ See Brian McLaren: Architecture And Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya: An Ambivalent Modernism. University of Washington Press 2006, p. 21
^ Luigi Luiggi on the website of the Italian Senate

personal data
SURNAME	Luiggi, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian engineer and politician, member of the Camera dei deputati
DATE OF BIRTH	August 3, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH	Genoa
DATE OF DEATH	February 1, 1931
Place of death	Rome

[1] Fassil Demissie: Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa. Interwined and Contested Histories. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2012, p. 41 ( ISBN 9780754675129 )

[2] See Brian McLaren: Architecture And Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya: An Ambivalent Modernism. University of Washington Press 2006, p. 21

[3] Luigi Luiggi on the website of the Italian Senate