Carlo Promis belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Carlo Promis as Italian architect (1808-1873).
Carlo Promis was born at Turin in 1808. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Italy. He trained at University of Turin.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect, archaeologist and philologist.
His best-known building is Storia dell'antica Torino, Julia Augusta Taurinorum. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Kingdom of Italy shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Carlo Promis died in 1873, aged 65. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Storia dell'antica Torino, Julia Augusta Taurinorum
- Trained at University of Turin
