Guido Maffezzoli
Guido Maffezzoli | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1921 Milan, Italy |
| Died | Milan |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Movement | italian rationalism |
Guido Maffezzoli was an Italian architect.
Birth[change | change source]
born in Milan in 1921, he is an Italian architect and designer, professor at the Politecnico di Milano, he is one of the protagonists of the Italian design of the fifties, representative of Italian rationalism.
Numerous are also his works of interior design, and the creation of furniture, lamps and design furniture objects in the fifties.
Among his best-known works, the 1967-1968 design for Piazza Fontana in Milan, the Church of the Sacred Heart in Milan and the masterpiece of Palazzo Maffezzoli, in Via Anelli 15 in the Quadronno district in Milan, designed in 1955 with Gianfranco Pellegrini, adjacent to Palazzo Galmanini Portaluppi, a masterpiece by Gualtiero Galmanini and Piero Portaluppi.[1]
Works[change | change source]
- 1955, Via Anelli 15, Milano with con Gianfranco Pellegrini
- 1963, Chiesa del Sacro Cuore di Milano
- 1967, piazza Fontana, Milan
Style[change | change source]
"Maffezzoli's forms retain an immense human charm."
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Manplan 5 Religion, 1970, p. 224
Bibliography[change | change source]
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- Manplan 5 Religion, 1970, p. 224
- Reinhard Gieselmann, Contemporary Church Architecture, London, 1972
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- Il rinnovamento della pittura in Italia, Milano 1950-59, Civiche gallerie d'arte moderna e contemporanea, 1997
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