In the history of building, Lorenzo Mongiardino is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Lorenzo Mongiardino as Italian architect (1916-1998).
Lorenzo Mongiardino was born at Genoa in 1916. His recorded nationality is Italy. He trained at Polytechnic University of Milan.
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, production designer and interior architect.
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.
Lorenzo Mongiardino died in 1998, aged 82. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Polytechnic University of Milan
