Anna Castelli Ferrieri belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Anna Castelli Ferrieri as Italian architect and designer (1918–2006).
Anna Castelli Ferrieri was born at Milan in 1918. Her recorded nationality is Italy. She trained at Polytechnic University of Milan.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
She is recorded as designer and architect.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
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.
Anna Castelli Ferrieri died in 2006, aged 88. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Polytechnic University of Milan
