| Architecture of Italy |
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| Periods and styles |
| Ancient Roman Romanesque Gothic Renaissance and Mannerist Baroque Rococo Neoclassical Fascist Modern and contemporary |
| Palaces and gardens |
| List of palazzi in Italy - Italian Renaissance garden - Giardino all'italiana |
| Notable works |
| St. Peter's Basilica - Santa Maria del Fiore |
| Notable architects |
| Vitruvius - Palladio - Pietro da Cortona - Leon Battista Alberti - Giacomo della Porta - Filippo Brunelleschi - Donato Bramante - Francesco Borromini - Bernini - Carlo Maderno - Michelangelo - Filippo Juvarra - Giò Ponti - Aldo Rossi - Renzo Piano - List of Italian architects |
| By region |
| North-Western Italian architecture - North-Eastern Italian architecture - Central Italian architecture - Southern Italian architecture |
| Other topics |
| Timeline of architectural trends - Sicilian baroque - Trullo - Venetian Gothic architecture |
Italian modern and contemporary architecture refers to architecture in Italy during the last decade.
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Art Nouveau was represented in Italy with Giuseppe Sommaruga and Ernesto Basile (Palazzo Castiglioni, expansion of the Palazzo Montecitorio in Rome respectively). A completely new language was announced by Antonio Sant'Elia (futurism). Rationalism appeared in Gruppo 7 (1926), but after the dissolution of the group emerged in the single figures of Giuseppe Terragni (Casa del Fascio Como), Adalberto Libera (Villa Malaparte in Capri) and Giovanni Michelucci (Santa Maria Novella Station in Florence, in collaboration). During the fascist period the so-called "Novecento movement" flourished (Gio Ponti, Peter Aschieri, Giovanni Muzio), that was based on the rediscovery of imperial Rome. Marcello Piacentini, author of urban transformations in several Italian cities and remembered for the disputed Via della Conciliazione in Rome, devised a "simplified Neoclassicism".
Second World War was characterized by various talents (Luigi Moretti, Carlo Scarpa, Franco Albini, Giò Ponti, Tomaso Buzzi and others), but was devoid of a single management. Pier Luigi Nervi, with its bold and concrete structures, acquired an international reputation and was an example to Riccardo Morandi and Sergio Musmeci. In a season enlivened by interesting debates brought forward by critics such as Bruno Zevi, prevailed rationalism, which is in the heading of Rome Termini Station a paradigmatic works. The neorealism of Michelucci (author of numerous churches in Tuscany), Charles Aymonino, Mario Ridolfi and others (neighborhoods INA-Casa) was followed by the Neoliberty (seen in earlier works of Vittorio Gregotti) and Brutalist architecture (Torre Velasca in Milan group BBPR, residential building via Piagentina in Florence, Leonardo Savioli, works by Giancarlo De Carlo).
Carlo Scarpa accomplished significant modernist projects in the Veneto and Venice. Le Corbusier (a hospital project in Venice) and Frank Lloyd Wright (design of a house on the Grand Canal Venice) did not build anything in Italy, as opposed to Alvar Aalto (Church of the Assumption in Riola, Vergato), Kenzo Tange (towers of Bologna Fair, floor of Naples central business district (CDN)) and Oscar Niemeyer (home of Mondadori in Segrate). The Postmodern, anticipated by Paul Portuguese around the 1960, found its consecration in the Theater of the World built by Aldo Rossi for the Venice Biennale of 1980.
Among the principal architects working in Italy between the end of the 20th and early 21st centuries remember Renzo Piano (Stadio San Nicola in Bari, restructuring the Old Port of Genoa, Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Padre Pio in San Giovanni Rotondo, etc..), Massimiliano Fuksas (skyscraper in the Piedmont Region, Convention Center to 'EUR), Gae Aulenti (Railway Museum of Naples underground ), the Swiss Mario Botta (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, restructuring of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan), Zaha Hadid (National Museum of the XXI Century Arts in Rome, skyscraper "Lo Storto" in Milan), Richard Meier (Church of God Merciful Father and casket of the Ara Pacis, in Rome), Norman Foster (Florence Station Belfiore), Daniel Libeskind (skyscraper "Il Curvo" in Milan) and Arata Isozaki (Palasport Olimpico in Turin, with Pier Paolo Maggiora and Marco Brizio, skyscraper "Il Dritto" in Milan).
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