In the history of building, Giuseppe Balzaretto is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Giuseppe Balzaretto as Italian architect (1801–1874).
Giuseppe Balzaretto was born at Pavia in 1801. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Italy. He trained at University of Pavia.
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.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
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.
Giuseppe Balzaretto died in 1874, aged 73. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at University of Pavia
