Arturo Mezzedimi | |
Birth Date: | 19 June 1922 |
Birth Place: | Poggibonsi, Siena, Italy |
Death Place: | Siena, Italy |
Nationality: | Italian |
Alma Mater: | Istituto Tecnico per Geometri Vittorio Bottego, Asmara |
Arturo Mezzedimi (19 June 1922 – 30 May 2010) was an Italian architect who worked principally in East Africa and the Middle East. He designed more than a hundred buildings in the Horn of Africa, among them Addis Ababa City Hall and Africa Hall,[1] and planned more than twenty urban centres in Ethiopia. In 1965 he received the Mangia d'Oro prize of the city of Siena, and in 1972 was made a Grande Ufficiale of the Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana.