Gino Levi-Montalcini is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Gino Levi-Montalcini as Italian architect and designer (1902–1974).
Gino Levi-Montalcini was born at Milan in 1902. His recorded nationality is Italy. He trained at Liceo Classico Massimo D'Azeglio and Polytechnic University of Turin.
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, designer and university teacher.
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.
Gino Levi-Montalcini died in 1974, aged 72. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Liceo Classico Massimo D'Azeglio and Polytechnic University of Turin
