Piero Portaluppi
Piero Portaluppi (born March 19, 1888 in Milan ; † July 6, 1967 there ) was an Italian architect .
His works include the reconstruction of the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan after the First World War and the Italian pavilion at the 1929 World Exhibition in Barcelona . Portaluppi won the competition for the master plan of Milan in 1927 together with Marco Semenza. He built several power stations in the Alps and the Apennines, as well as the Milan Planetarium.
In the 1950s he worked extensively on various designs and projects with Gualtiero Galmanini , who had been chosen as the symbol of Italian design in 1947, as designer of the gates of honor at the Triennale of Milan, the most important industrial design exhibition in Italy with Luigi Pollastri .
He was also involved in the construction of the Villa Necchi Campiglio in the east of downtown Milan. In Milan, Via Piero Portaluppi is named after him and is located in the east of the city near Linate Airport .
Works
Below are some of the main works by the architect Portaluppi in chronological order.
The headquarters of the Banco Ambrosiano in Milan, restored and designed 1960–66 by Piero Portaluppi & Gualtiero Galmanini
Milanese palace with characteristic design by Piero Portaluppi; Via De Amicis 25 (via Conca del Naviglio), Milanese (1945)
Milanese palace with characteristic design by Piero Portaluppi; Via Largo La Foppa , Milan (1934)
- Headquarters of the Linificio e Canapificio Nazionale in Via Ansperto in Milan (1919–25, 1936–38)
- Casa degli Atellani in Corso Magenta in Milan (1919–21, 1943, 1946–52)
- Restoration of the pheasantry in the royal park of Monza as the headquarters of the Milan Golf Club (1928–30)
- Italian pavilion at the International Exhibition in Barcelona (1928–29)
- Palace of the National Insurance Institute on Piazza Diaz in Milan (1932–37)
- House of the Saturday of the bride and groom at the V Triennale di Milano (1932–33, with BBPR , Lucio Fontana , Umberto Sabbioni, Luigi Santarella, Pietro Chiesa).
- Villa Necchi Campiglio , in Via Mozart in Milan (1932–35)
- Villa Crespi "Il Biffo" in Merate (Lecco) (1935–38)
- Portaluppi's home and studio in Via Morozzo della Rocca in Milan (1935–1939)
- Arengario (1937–42, 1950–56, with Enrico Agostino Griffini, Pier Giulio Magistretti, Giovanni Muzio )
- Cimitero Monumentale (Milan) , Edicola Girola (1941) sculptures by Giannino Castiglioni
- Conversion of the monastery of San Vittore into the Museo nazionale della scienza e della tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci (1947–53)
- Restoration of the Ospedale Maggiore at the headquarters of the State University (1949–70)
- Arrangement of the castello degli Arcimboldi called "la Bicocca" in Viale Sarca in Milan (1952–54)
- Maison de l'Italie at the Cité Universitaire in Paris (1952–58)
- RAS headquarters in Corso Italia in Milan (1956–62), with Gio Ponti
- Headquarters of the Banco Ambrosiano at Piazza Ferrari 10 in Milan (1960–66), with Gualtiero Galmanini .
literature
- Cristiano Marchegiani: Portaluppi, Piero. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 85: Ponzone-Quercia. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2016.
Web links
- PORTALUPPI, Piero in Enciclopedia Italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti (1935)
- Homepage of the Fondazione Portaluppi
- Architectural catalog raisonné at the Fondazione Portaluppi
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 1947. VIII Triennale di Milano Esposizione internazionale delle arti decorative e industriali modern e dell'architettura moderna [L'abitazione], Triennale di Milano
- ↑ [1] Il Giornale dell'Architettura, Triennale story: VIII edizione, 1947, 4 February 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Portaluppi, Piero |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1967 |
| Place of death | Milan |