In the history of building, Gustavo Giovannoni is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Gustavo Giovannoni as Italian architect and engineer (1873–1947).
Gustavo Giovannoni was born at Rome in 1873. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Italy.
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, engineer and university teacher.
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.
Gustavo Giovannoni died in 1947, aged 74. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
