Piero Portaluppi belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Piero Portaluppi as Italian architect (1888–1967).
Piero Portaluppi was born at Milan in 1888. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of 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, urban planner and cartoonist.
His work is associated with rationalism.
Among his best-known works are Villa Necchi Campiglio, Pinacoteca di Brera and Casa Atellani. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Gold medal for merit in school, culture and art and Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
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.
Piero Portaluppi died in 1967, aged 79. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Villa Necchi Campiglio
- Notable work: Pinacoteca di Brera
- Notable work: Casa Atellani
- Notable work: Civic Planetarium of Milan
- Gold medal for merit in school, culture and art
- Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- Movement: rationalism
- Trained at Polytechnic University of Milan
