Vittorio Meano practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Vittorio Meano as Italian architect (1860–1904).
Vittorio Meano was born at Susa in 1860. His recorded nationality is Argentina.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect.
His best-known building is Legislative Palace. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Argentina shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Vittorio Meano died in 1904, aged 44. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Legislative Palace
