Luciano Baldessari is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Luciano Baldessari as Italian architect and scenographer (1896–1982).
Luciano Baldessari was born at Rovereto in 1896. His recorded nationality is Italy. He trained at Royal Elizabethan School and 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, scenographer and designer.
His best-known building is Luminator Bernocchi. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
Recognition followed: Feltrinelli Prize.
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.
Luciano Baldessari died in 1982, aged 86. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Luminator Bernocchi
- Feltrinelli Prize
- Trained at Royal Elizabethan School and Polytechnic University of Milan
