1. Giovanni Michelucci was an Italian architect, urban planner and designer.
11 Facts About Giovanni Michelucci
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Giovanni Michelucci had the good fortune to live a long life almost entirely within the span of the twentieth century, giving us a valuable witness through his work with innovative architectural vernaculars and proposals, from his understanding of the complexity of events, transformations, and ideas that animated the twentieth century.
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Giovanni Michelucci was one of the major Italian architects of that century, known for famous projects such as the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station and the San Giovanni Battista church on the Autostrada del Sole.
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Giovanni Michelucci came from a family which owned an outstanding workshop for artistic iron craftsmanship and his youthful formative years were spent immersed in that world, after graduating from the Higher Institute of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence.
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Giovanni Michelucci died on the night of 31 December 1990, at age 99, at his studio-home in Fiesole, in Florence's hills, now the headquarters of his Foundation.
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Giovanni Michelucci met Eloisa Pacini, a refined painter and pianist, from Pistoia, who belonged to the same artistic milieu where Michelucci played an important role in intellectual culture.
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Giovanni Michelucci reaffirmed the value of attention to architectural history and the desire to escape from rhetorical excitement, which was thought to represent an era, confronting modern architectural challenges removed from the feeling of conforming to a current architecture or blindly tied to one style.
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Giovanni Michelucci's thesis was innovative but not accepted, this defeat heavily influencing his teaching at the Faculty of Architecture, where he was now Dean.
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Giovanni Michelucci bequeathed his vision and values to the Foundation, that he wanted to be attentive to the social problems of the city and to the separate worlds of total institutions as prison, asylum, hospitals.
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Giovanni Michelucci committed the Foundation to offering ideas and plans for action on the chronic urban question, how to reconnect separate spaces by a new design of the city, giving witness to a way of life and to making architecture meet the needs of the people.
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Today, the Giovanni Michelucci Foundation is a relevant and innovative actor in research and planning on social habitat and on the relationship between space and society.