Tomaso Buzzi

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Tomaso Buzzi (* 1900 in Sondrio , † 1981 in Rapallo ) was an Italian architect and designer.

The offspring from a wealthy family began his career in Milan in 1923 and joined the moderately neoclassical group Noveceneto milanese around Gio Ponti and Emilio Lancia. With them he realized the Villa de l'ange volant in Paris from 1925–26. From 1931, with the Villa Vittoria Contini, Buzzi's contact with the high aristocracy began. He also worked as a furniture and glass designer, and wrote articles in Domus and Dedalo. Buzzi's gradual turning away from modernity became more pronounced after 1945 when he mainly worked as a private architect for the Italian nobility and the big bourgeoisie of the Volpi, Agnelli, etc. In 1956 the highly educated, bibliophile cosmopolitan and loner began to transform an old Franciscan monastery into his personal ideal city: La Scarzuola is historicizing, symbolic outsider architecture (in Montegabbione , district of Montegiove , province of Terni ).

literature

  • Andrea Alberto Dutto, "Last year at Buzzinda" in Horizonte (series of lectures. Journal for Architecture Discourse), 13, 2019, 230–247. ISSN  2190-5649
  • Guglielmo Bilancioni, Alberto Giorgio Cassani, Enrico Fenzi, Alessandro Mazza, Paola Tognon: Tomaso Buzzi Il principe degli architetti 1900–1981. Electa, Milan 2008, ISBN 978-88-370-4494-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Buzzi, Tomaso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect and designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Sondrio
DATE OF DEATH 1981
Place of death Rapallo