Luigi Caccia Dominioni practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Luigi Caccia Dominioni as Italian architect (1913–2016).
Luigi Caccia Dominioni was born at Milan in 1913. 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 and designer.
Among his best-known works are Palazzo Caccia Dominioni (Viale B. d'Este) and Palazzo Vigoni (Caccia Dominioni). Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Recognition followed: Gold Medal for Italian Architecture.
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.
Luigi Caccia Dominioni died in 2016, aged 103. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Palazzo Caccia Dominioni (Viale B. d'Este)
- Notable work: Palazzo Vigoni (Caccia Dominioni)
- Gold Medal for Italian Architecture
- Trained at Polytechnic University of Milan
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