Francesco Tamburini practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Francesco Tamburini as Italian architect (1846-1891).
Francesco Tamburini was born at Ascoli Piceno in 1846. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Italy.
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 and painter.
Among his best-known works are Casa Rosada, Teatro del Libertador General San Martín and Colón Theater. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
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.
Francesco Tamburini died in 1890, aged 44. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Casa Rosada
- Notable work: Teatro del Libertador General San Martín
- Notable work: Colón Theater
