Giovanni Pellegrini Explained

Birth Date:1908 9, df=yes
Birth Place:Milan, Kingdom of Italy
Giovanni Pellegrini
Occupation:Architect
Death Place:Como, Lombardy, Italy
Alma Mater:Polytechnic University of Milan

Giovanni Pellegrini (28 September 1908 – 11 May 1995) was an Italian architect.

He graduated in architecture at the Polytechnic University of Milan in 1931 and started working in the architectural firm of, and . He went to Libya in 1933 and distinguished himself as a colonial architect of Italian Rationalism, designing several buildings and planned towns in Tripolitania.[1] [2] [3] [4] After World War II he designed public housing and urban plans in the city of Milan.

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Notes and References

  1. Giovanna. D'Amia. L'urbanistica coloniale di Giovanni Pellegrini e la pianificazione di villaggi libici. Territorio. 2011. 57. 125–134. 10.3280/TR2011-057016 .
  2. Francesco. Fariello. Edifici a Tripoli. Architetto Giovanni Pellegrini. Architettura. 1935. XIV. 150–155.
  3. Book: Architetti e ingegneri italiani dal Levante al Magreb (1848-1945). Ezio. Godoli. Milva. Giacomelli. Maschietto Editore. Florence. 2005. 269–273.
  4. Book: Santoianni, Vittorio. Il Razionalismo nelle colonie italiane 1928-1943. La «nuova architettura» delle Terre d'Oltremare. Università di Napoli. Naples. 181–193.