Paolo Vietti-Violi

Paolo Vietti-Violi (June 20, 1882, Grandson, Switzerland - December 25, 1965, Vogogna, Italy) was an Italian architect.

Life

Born in the French-speaking Switzerland from Italian parents who resided there for business, he studied in Geneva and Paris (at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts) from which he graduated in 1907. He moved to Milan where in 1914 he re-graduated at the Royal Polytechnic in order to practice his profession in Italy. He then began a career as a designer in the field of sports facilities such as racetracks, stadiums and their complementary structures. His design universe, however, was very large and varied, as evidenced by the different architectural aspects, which are identifiable in the rationalism of the time, still soaked from the original neo-classical French style.

He worked not only in Italy but also in several countries of the Central Europe; he also realized several projects in Turkey, then in India, East Africa and South America (including a Jockey Club in Argentina).

His skills gained him the respect of kings, rulers and aristocrats. In 1907 he married Maria Biraghi Lossetti, an aristocratic heiress of the Lords of Vogogna Biraghi Lossetti, who bore him the following year his son Emanuele, who became an architect and his collaborator in Milan. He was an artillery officer in Genoa during the First World War and in 1944 he became the Mayor of Vogogna during the partisan Republic of Ossola.

Vietti-Violi died in Vogogna at 83 on the Christmas Day of 1965. He was still working on the racecourse Parilly of Lyon and at the new church of Villadossola assisted by his assistant at the time, the architect Vladimiro Francioli.

Honors

The honors and offices list includes:

He held a sports architecture lessons on several occasions:

He debated in Istanbul, Turkey and the Academy of Fine Arts on the theme Architecture Sportiva. A street named after him in the Italian village of Vogogna, Via architect Paolo Vietti Violi.

Sport projects

Important contribution of Vietti Violi at national and international level, has been in the sport. Vietti-Violi noted in Casabella, the international magazine dedicated to architecture: "... the rebirth of the sport and, above all, the spirit of sport in Italy, as he wanted directed and organized by the fascist regime, has itself brought about a massive redesign of sports works".
[1] His plans for sports facilities have stressed the importance of planning the general context: the public transport and road access, parking and turnstiles of the stadium. He designed and directed the works for the construction of more than 33 tracks, stadiums and sports facilities in Italy and abroad. Including domestic services:

Subsequent designs include the racecourse of the Lido of Venice, Italy, with the gallop and trot facilities, stables for 260 horses.

In 1913 he went to Argentina, where he was invited for the design of the new headquarters of the Jockey Club of Buenos Aires. Later he went to Bombay in India, Western India Turf Club on the call to select designers for the construction of two racecourses in Bombay and Poona. From 1930 to 1932 he became director of the Monza Autodrome.

In 1932 designs, with the young Hungarian Andreas Benko who works in his studio, Sciesopoli, a mountain colony promoted by fascism and dedicated to Antonio Sciesa hero of the Risorgimento, which is located in Selvino (Bergamo) on the next pre-Alps of Bergamo, in Lombardy, less than 100 kilometers from Milan, which was inaugurated on 11 June 1933. the largest colony is made up of a complex of avant-garde buildings, completed in a very short time. The colony had dormitories, dining rooms, heated swimming pool, cinema, infirmary, a vast 17,000 square meter park and sites for meetings. Among the numerous lenders who operate completely offered 2,580,000 lire, as evidenced by the marble slab of the entrance hall, there was the Duce Benito Mussolini, who donated 5,000 lira for its realization.

In 1937 in Yugoslavia, that is contacted to the racecourse project Zemun Belgrade in Yugoslavia and sports facilities in Sarajevo. In 1937 in Poland, it is contacted to the racecourse project in Warsaw from local Jockey Club. In 1939 in Ethiopia, at the invitation of the Society Encouragement of Horse Breeds (S.I.R.E.), and the request of the Viceroy of Ethiopia, the Duke of Aosta, for complete sports facilities in Addis Ababa. In 1948 in Bulgaria, it is interviewed by the Bulgarian Government for the project to complete sports facilities in Sofia.

In 1950 in Venezuela, he was invited by the Government to study a drainage project for slopes Racecourses. It implements projects for complete sports facilities and the final design for the hippodrome of Valencia, Venezuela. Then implements the project of the Stadio San Martino di Genova.

The architect Vietti Violi has designed numerous indoor during the years of its activity in Italy:

In 1936, to 'Ankara was' inaugurated the project of Vietti-Violi for expansion to 60,000 spectators sitting of the 19 Mayıs Stadium Stadium ( "May 19 Stadium Sports"), then the scene of many celebrations of national holidays. In a published description of the project, the Vietti Violi mentions the militaristic connotations of sport in 1930, the stadium complex was "a great and outstanding program that has necessitated the creation of a wide road for military parades" (Bozdoğan, 2001 ). Participate in the competition to design the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, in Anıtkabir (Christopher S. Wilson, 2009). Later in his career he designed the BJK Inonu Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, completed in 1954.

Civil works projects

Vietti-Violi participated in numerous design competitions of large civil works: hospitals (Pavia), factories, theaters (Genoa), basilicas (Syracuse), public facilities including regional palaces. He realized important villages workers in Villadossola for about 1000 workers and in Pieve Vergonte designed the workers' village, offices, laboratories and factories of the local industrial complex. He participated in numerous competitions:

The architect Vietti-Violi created numerous private villas projects:

He also produced numerous projects for residential buildings, hotels and office:

Projects of religious works

Vietti-Violi realized the religious works projects:

He participated in numerous competitions of religious works:

Notes

  1. ↑ http://ambretti.altervista.org/sport-politica.pdf
  2. ↑ http://www.casadellarchitettura.eu/index.php?do=fascicoli
  3. ↑ http://www.casadellarchitettura.eu/index.php?do=fascicoli

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