Biografia de giuseppe terragni

Italian architect

Giuseppe Terragni (Italian:[dʒuˈzɛppeterˈraɲɲi]; 18 April – 19 July ) was an Italian architect who worked primarily under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini and pioneered the Italian modern movement under the rubric of Rationalism.^[1] His most famous work is the Casa del Fascio built in Como, northern Italy, which was begun in and completed in ;^[1] it was built in accordance with the International Style of architecture and frescoed by abstract artist Mario Radice.

In , at the behest of Mussolini's fascist government, Terragni designed the Danteum, an unbuilt monument to the Italian poet Dante Alighieri structured around the formal divisions of his greatest work, the Divine Comedy.^[2]

Biography

Giuseppe Terragni was born to a prominent family in Meda, Lombardy.^[3] He attended the Technical College in Como then studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano university.^[4] I