Luigi Piccinato is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Luigi Piccinato as Italian architect (1899-1983).
Luigi Piccinato was born at Legnago in 1899. His recorded nationality is Italy. He trained at Sapienza University of Rome.
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.
His best-known building is Stadio Adriatico. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
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 Piccinato died in 1983, aged 84. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Stadio Adriatico
- Trained at Sapienza University of Rome
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