Tullio Rossi

Tullio Rossi (born February 28, 1903 in Rome , † September 4, 1997 in Florence ) was an Italian architect . He was one of the most prolific church builders in the Rome area.

Life

He completed his architecture studies at the scuola di architettura della capitale in Rome in 1928 and won the premio Valadier prize for his dissertation. He learned the craft from another great Roman architect, Clemente Busiri Vici , with whom he worked until 1930.

At the beginning of his self-employment , he concentrated on residential and sacred buildings . He planned several villas between 1934 and 1938. In Rome it was the Villa Ricci Bartoloni, the Villa Marquis Sollero del Borgo, Collegio Capranica, the Villa Cidonio and in Italy the Villa Falconi, Villa Rizzani and the Villa Medioli.

Basilica of St. Peter and Paul (Rome) , 1967.

In 1945 he founded Studio San Giorgio in Florence with Pier Niccolò Berardi . Together they won the competition for the reconstruction of the Ponte Vecchio in Florence. In 1949 he planned the American military cemetery in Florence.

In Rome he worked on the realization of the landscape plan for the Olgiata area and the construction of several churches:

literature

Luigi Monzo: croci e fasci - Italian church construction in the time of fascism, 1919–1945. Two volumes, Karlsruhe 2017 (dissertation, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 2017), pp. 572–589. (Text on the works of sacred architecture by Tullio Rossi)

Web links

Commons : Tullio Rossi - collection of images, videos and audio files

Tullio Rossi , directory of his church buildings on rossilli.it (Italian)

personal data
SURNAME	Rossi, Tullio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian architect
DATE OF BIRTH	February 28, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rome
DATE OF DEATH	4th September 1997
Place of death	Florence