Luigi Giura

Italian architect and engineer (1795–1865)

Luigi Giura practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.

The record lists Luigi Giura as Italian architect and engineer (1795–1865).

Luigi Giura was born at Maschito in 1795. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Italy.

Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.

He is recorded as architect, civil engineer and engineer.

Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.

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.

Luigi Giura died in 1865, aged 70. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.

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