Mario Palanti is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Mario Palanti as Italian architect.
Mario Palanti was born at Milan in 1885. His recorded nationality is Italy. He trained at Brera Academy 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.
Among his best-known works are Barolo Palace and Palacio Salvo. 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.
Mario Palanti died in 1979, aged 94. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Barolo Palace
- Notable work: Palacio Salvo
- Trained at Brera Academy and Polytechnic University of Milan
