Mario De Renzi

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Mario De Renzi (born November 17, 1897 in Rome , † November 22, 1967 in Rome ) was an Italian architect.

RAI production center of Naples (with Renato Avolio De Martino and Raffaele Contigiani). Photo by Paolo Monti , 1966.

De Renzi was trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. There he was a student of Marcello Piacentini and Arnaldo Foschini, among others . He was one of the activists of the conservative cultural circle Associazione Artistica fra i Cultori dell'Architettura in Rome, which also included personalities such as Piacentini, Gustavo Giovannoni , Innocenzo Sabbatini and Manfredo Manfredi .

One of his best-known works is the furnishing of the exhibition for the 10th anniversary of the fascist revolution , for which he redesigned the Palazzo delle Esposizioni together with Adalberto Libera in 1932 . Another important building that is also a contribution to rationalist architecture in Rome is the Palazzo delle Poste in Via Marmorata in Rome, which he also designed together with Libera.

In contrast to Libera, who led radical modernism in Italy as a functionary of MIAR , De Renzi belonged to those circles of Roman architects who saw the renewal of architecture in continuity with the cultural-historical substrate of the city. Giorgio Muratore counts him in a line of continuity with architects such as Enrico Del Debbio , Piacentini but also Mario Ridolfi, Ludovico Quaroni, Bruno Zevi and Paolo Portoghesi .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Luigi Monzo: Croci e fasci - Italian church building in the time of fascism, 1919–1945. 2 vol., Karlsruhe 2017 (dissertation, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 2017), p. 132.
  2. ^ Post office in Via Marmorata. In: arch INFORM .
  3. ↑ cf. Muratore, Giorgio: Uno sperimentalismo eclettico. In: Ciucci, Giorgio and Giorgio Muratore (eds.): Storia dell'architettura italiana. Il primo novecento. Milan 2004, p. 33.

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SURNAME De Renzi, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1967
Place of death Rome