Giovanni Muzio practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Giovanni Muzio as Italian architect (1893-1982).
Giovanni Muzio was born at Milan in 1893. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Italy. He trained at Polytechnic University of Milan and University of Pavia.
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 and university teacher.
His work is associated with novecento italiano.
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.
Giovanni Muzio died in 1982, aged 89. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Movement: Novecento Italiano
- Trained at Polytechnic University of Milan and University of Pavia
