In the history of building, Giulio Ulisse Arata is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Giulio Ulisse Arata as Italian architect (1881-1962).
Giulio Ulisse Arata was born at Piacenza in 1881. His recorded nationality is Italy. He trained at Brera Academy.
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, art historian and art critic.
His best-known building is Stadio Renato Dall'Ara. An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
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.
Giulio Ulisse Arata died in 1962, aged 81. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara
- Trained at Brera Academy
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