Arturo Mezzedimi Explained

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.

Notes and References

  1. http://abe.revues.org/3159 Architecture Beyond Europe: Aspirations and Contradictions in Shaping A Cosmopolitan Africa: Arturo Mezzedimi (Textes intégral)