Domenico Lo Faso Pietrasanta belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Domenico Lo Faso Pietrasanta as Italian architect.
Domenico Lo Faso Pietrasanta was born at Palermo in 1783. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Italy.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as art historian, archaeologist and architect.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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.
Domenico Lo Faso Pietrasanta died in 1863, aged 80. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
