In the history of building, Giuseppe Poggi is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Giuseppe Poggi as Italian architect (1811-1901).
Giuseppe Poggi was born at Florence in 1811. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Italy. He trained at Academy of Fine Arts, Florence.
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 and engineer.
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 Poggi died in 1901, aged 90. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Academy of Fine Arts, Florence
.jpg)
