In the history of building, Alessandro Galilei is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Alessandro Galilei as Italian architect and engineer of the Baroque period (1691–1737).
Alessandro Galilei was born in 1691. His recorded nationality is Italy.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
That the work was built in Italy shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Alessandro Galilei died in 1737, aged 46. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
