Pietro Nobile belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Pietro Nobile as Italian architect and builder (1776-1854).
Pietro Nobile was born at Campestro in 1776. His recorded nationality is Canton of Ticino. He trained at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect and general contractor.
His best-known building is Äußeres Burgtor. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Canton of Ticino shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Pietro Nobile died in 1854, aged 78. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Äußeres Burgtor
- Trained at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
