Giovanni Michelucci

Giovanni Michelucci (Pistoia, 2 January 1891 – Florence, 31 December 1990) was an Italian architect, urban planner and engraver..
He was one of the greatest Italian architects of the 20th century, famous for having designed, for example, the Florence Santa Maria Novella station and the church of the Autostrada del Sole.

Born in Pistoia to a family that owned an iron foundry, in 1911 he obtained a diploma from the Higher Institute of Architecture.
He worked in his father's factory and the activity of the famous architect as an engraver, carried out in his youth and then resumed in his old age, has a considerable place, although little investigated so far, in the history of Italian xylography of the early twentieth century. His work as a xylographer developed for at least a decade from 1913 until 1923-24, a very troubled two-year period for the young Michelucci, both for .…Wikipedia…>>