Luigi Moretti

Luigi Walter Moretti (Rome, November 22, 1906 – Capraia Isola, July 14, 1973) was one of the most important Italian architects of the XNUMXth century. He was also very active as a scholar and art critic.

Born in 1906 in Rome on Via Napoleone III, on the Esquiline Hill, in the same apartment where he lived almost all his life, Luigi Moretti was the illegitimate son of the architect Luigi Rolland, whose most important works are the Teatro Adriano and the Cassa di Risparmio delle Poste building in Piazza Dante. His mother, Maria Giuseppina Moretti, whose surname he bears, was originally from Gallo, a small hamlet in the municipality of Tagliacozzo in the province of L'Aquila.

He first attended the technical school, then the classical high school and, from 1925 to 1930, the Royal School of Architecture in Rome. He graduated in 1930, with top marks, with a project for a college of higher classical education in Villa dei Papi, near Grottaferrata, with which he won the prize named after Giuseppe Valadier for the best degree thesis of the institute.

Between 1931 and 1934 he worked as an assistant to the chair of History and styles of architecture held by Vincenzo Fasolo (author of the project for the Roman Mamiani high school and the Duca d'Aosta bridge) and to Gustavo Giovannoni's chair of Restoration of monuments.
In 1931 he won the three-year scholarship for Roman studies, established by the Governorate of Rome and the Royal School of Architecture: thanks to this funding he was able to collaborate with Corrado Ricci in the arrangement of the eastern and northern sectors of Trajan's Markets.
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