Bernardino Facciotto is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Bernardino Facciotto as Italian architect.
Bernardino Facciotto was born at Casale Monferrato in 1540. His recorded nationality is Italy.
The Renaissance made the architect an individual with a signature, a theory and a reputation, working from drawings rather than on site.
He is recorded as architect.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
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.
Bernardino Facciotto died in 1598, aged 58. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
