Ferruccio Vitale

Ferruccio Vitale

Ferruccio Vitale (1875-1933) was a landscape architect. According to Schnadelbach, he is "America's forgotten landscape architect."[1]

Life

Born in Florence, Italy, February 5, 1875, the son of Lazzaro and the Countess Giuseppina Barbaro Vitale.[2] His father was an engineer [3] and in 1893 Ferruccio Vitale graduated at the Royal military school, Modena, as an engineer as well, but then became an Italian army officer.[3] In 1898, Vitale came to the United States as a military attache to the Italian embassy in Washington, D.C:.[2] He studied landscape architecture in Florence, Turin and Paris. In 1902 he moved fron Genoa to New York, where he had already signed a contract as "landascape architect" with Parsons & Pentecost. In 1908 he had already managed to start his own architecture studio with Alfred Geiffert, and in 1919 he signed his first major work: the Meridian Hill Park in Washington.[4]

In 1921 he acquired US citizenship and for this is known as an American landscape architect.

He was part of the American Society of Landscape Architects (1904, fellow in 1908), the Architectural League of New York, the Municipal Art Society and the Fine Arts Commission of New York City, the American Academy in Rome, the Foundation for Architecture and Landscape Architecture, American Institute of Architects (1927, honorary member)[4] and various New York Clubs.[1]

In 1920 Vitale, Brinckerhoff and Geiffert received the first gold medal award from the Architectural League of New York for landscape architecture.[4]

Death

He died of pneumonia in 1933.[5][1][6]

Works

References

  1. 1 2 3 Terry R., Schnadelbach (November 26, 2001). Ferruccio Vitale: Landscape Architect of the Country Place Era (1 ed.). Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1568982908. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  2. 1 2 Birnbaum, Charles A.; Karson, Robin S. (2000). Pioneers of American Landscape Design. McGraw Hill. p. 417. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  3. 1 2 The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time, Volume 31. University Microfilms. 1967. p. 106. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 "Ferruccio Vitale". The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  5. ↑ By Francesca De Coltana in :"Lo "Stil Novo d'america",  : Architectural Digest - Italia, AD-OUTDOOR, Milan may 2017 , Ed. Condè Nast, pages 111-113
  6. ↑ Landscape Architecture Magazine, Volumes 23-24. Lay, Hubbard & Wheelright. 1933. p. 219. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  7. ↑ Country Life in America, Volume 31. Doubleday, Page & Company. 1917. p. 136. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  8. ↑ "Allgates". NPGallery Digital Asset Management System (formerly NPS Focus).
  9. ↑ "Villa Virginia". NPGallery Digital Asset Management System (formerly NPS Focus).
  10. ↑ "Moore, Benjamin, Estate". NPGallery Digital Asset Management System (formerly NPS Focus). Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  11. ↑ "Reed, Mrs. Kersey Coates, House". NPGallery Digital Asset Management System (formerly NPS Focus). Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  12. ↑ "Meridian Hill Park". NPGallery Digital Asset Management System (formerly NPS Focus).
  13. ↑ "Skylands". NPGallery Digital Asset Management System (formerly NPS Focus).
  14. ↑ "George Washington Memorial Parkway". NPGallery Digital Asset Management System (formerly NPS Focus).
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