In the history of building, Antonio Monestiroli is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Antonio Monestiroli as Italian architect (1940–2019).
Antonio Monestiroli was born at Milan in 1940. His recorded nationality is Italy. He trained at Polytechnic University of Milan.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
He is recorded as architect.
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.
Antonio Monestiroli died in 2019, aged 79. 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
