Giovanni Michelucci
Architect of man and of the city, sensitive interpreter of the changes of his time
Place of birth
Italian architect (Pistoia, 2 January 1891 – Florence, 31 December 1990)
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 celebrated architect's work as an engraver, which he pursued in his youth and then resumed in his later years, holds a significant, yet little-researched, place in the history of early twentieth-century Italian woodcuts. His work as a woodcut artist spanned at least a decade, from 1913 to 1923-24, a very troubled two-year period for the young Michelucci, both for .…Wikipedia…>>
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