In the history of building, Luca Beltrami is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Luca Beltrami as Italian architect (1854-1933).
Luca Beltrami was born at Milan in 1854. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Italy. He trained at Brera Academy.
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, art historian and politician.
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.
Luca Beltrami died in 1933, aged 79. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Brera Academy
