Alessandro Sanquirico practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Alessandro Sanquirico as Italian scenic designer, architect, and painter (1777-1849).
Alessandro Sanquirico was born at Milan in 1777. His recorded nationality is Austrian Empire.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect, painter and scenographer.
Among his best-known works are Puppets by Alessandro Sanquirico and Castello di Urio. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Austrian Empire shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Alessandro Sanquirico died in 1849, aged 72. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Puppets by Alessandro Sanquirico
- Notable work: Castello di Urio
