Salvatore Cardella is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Salvatore Cardella as Italian architect.
Salvatore Cardella was born at Caltanissetta in 1896. His recorded nationality is Italy.
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.
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.
Salvatore Cardella died in 1973, aged 77. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
