Giuseppe Terragni was an Italian architect who worked primarily under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini and pioneered the Italian modern movement under the rubric of Rationalism.
Education
His most famous work is the Casa del Fascio built in Como, northern Italy, which was begun in 1932 and completed in 1936. lieutenant was built in accordance with the International Style of architecture and frescoed by abstract artist Mario Radice.
Career
In 1938, at the behest of Mussolini"s fascist government, Terragni designed the Danteum, an unbuilt monument to the Italian poet Dante Alighieri structured around the formal divisions of his greatest work, the Divine Comedy. Giuseppe Terragni was born in Meda, Lombardy. He attended the Technical College in Como then studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano university.
They remained in practice until Giuseppe"s death during the war.
A pioneer of the modern movement in Italy, Terragni produced some of its most significant buildings. In a career that lasted only 13 years, Terragni created a small but remarkable group of designs.
Most of them were built in Como, which was one of the centers of the Modern Movement in Italy. These works form the nucleus of the language of Italian rationalist or modernistic architecture.
Terragni was also one of the leaders of the artistic group called "astrattisti comaschi" with Mario Radice and Manlio Rho, one of the most important events in Italian Modern Artist
He also contributed to the 1932 Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution. Terragni died of thrombosis in Como in 1943.