Ernesto Nathan Rogers is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Ernesto Nathan Rogers as Italian architect (1909-1969).
Ernesto Nathan Rogers was born at Trieste in 1909. His recorded nationality is Italy. He 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.
He is recorded as architect, journalist and university teacher.
His best-known building is Torre Velasca. 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.
Ernesto Nathan Rogers died in 1969, aged 60. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Torre Velasca
- Trained at Polytechnic University of Milan
