21 Facts About Giuseppe Pagano

Giuseppe Pagano was an Italian architect, notable for his involvement in the movement of rationalist architecture in Italy up to the end of the Second World War.

Giuseppe Pagano designed exhibitions, furniture and interiors and was an amateur photographer.

Giuseppe Pagano was a long-time editor of the magazine Casabella.

Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig was born in Parenzo .

Giuseppe Pagano was twice wounded and twice captured but managed to escape.

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In 1924, Giuseppe Pagano graduated from the Politecnico of Turin, with a degree in architecture.

Giuseppe Pagano worked alongside Edoardo Persico, Anna Maria Mazzucchelli, Giulia Veronesi, Giancarlo Palanti, Mario Labo, Agnoldomenico Pica and Giulio Carlo Argan and together they transformed the home and decoration magazine into a key platform for architectural and political debate.

Giuseppe Pagano had a significant career as a writer and defender of rationalist architecture in the press, especially Casabella, whose name he soon changed from La Casa Bella when he became director of the magazine in 1933 along with Neapolitan art critic Edoardo Persico.

Giuseppe Pagano designed the Italian Pavilion for the Liege Expo of 1930 with Gino Levi Montalcini as well the interiors and many of the exhibition spaces for the Italian Pavilion at the Paris Expo of 1937 by Marcello Piacentini.

Giuseppe Pagano worked on the master plan for the ill-fated Rome Expo of 1942, that was never held.

Giuseppe Pagano was involved in the Milan Triennial V which was held in Milanese Novecento architectGiovanni Muzio's Palazzo dell'Arte specially built in the Parco Sempione, when the Exposition of Industrial and Decorative Arts moved from Monza to Milan.

Giuseppe Pagano was responsible for the 1934 Aeronautics Show where he designed three of the main spaces including the Hall of Honour and the Hall of Icarus.

Giuseppe Pagano directed the VI Triennale of 1936, together with the painter Mario Sironi and designed a new Entry Pavillion, an extension to the Palazzo dell'Arte, subsequently demolished due to bomb damage in the Second World War.

Giuseppe Pagano was an amateur photographer, an activity sparked by his desire to document Italy's vernacular tradition in architecture.

Giuseppe Pagano traveled Italy 'hunting' for images and creating careful compositions that expressed material qualities, gave snapshots of daily life and celebrated what he saw as a 'real' Italy – not that of the tourist brochures and the propaganda machine.

Giuseppe Pagano opposed "representative architecture" of all types, whether Modern or Classical.

Giuseppe Pagano remained dubious of some groups of Rationalists who made attempts to identify their architecture with Italian Fascism, and to make it the official state architecture.

Giuseppe Pagano worked closely with regime architect Marcello Piacentini on the Rome's new university between 1933 and 1935.

In 1942, Giuseppe Pagano would leave the School of Fascist Mysticism and the Fascist Party.

Giuseppe Pagano was recaptured in September 1944 in Milan, imprisoned at Villa Triste, and tortured.

Giuseppe Pagano died of pneumonia in the infirmary of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria on 22 April 1945.