Giovanni Battista Soria is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Giovanni Battista Soria as Italian architect (1581–1651).
Giovanni Battista Soria was born at Rome in 1581. His recorded nationality is Italy.
The Renaissance made the architect an individual with a signature, a theory and a reputation, working from drawings rather than on site.
He is recorded as architect.
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.
Giovanni Battista Soria died in 1651, aged 70. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
