13 Facts About Raimondo D'Aronco

Raimondo Tommaso D'Aronco was an Italian architect renowned for his building designs in the style of Art Nouveau.

Raimondo D'Aronco was the chief palace architect to the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II in Istanbul for 16 years.

Raimondo D'Aronco was born 1857 in the provincial town of Gemona del Friuli, Udine, Italy into a family of builders for several generations.

Raimondo D'Aronco completed the Gemona Arts and Trades School after the primary school.

At the age of 14, Raimondo D'Aronco attended the Johanneum Baukunde in Graz, Austria in 1871, a school for construction famous for training skilled masons and joiners, which still exists today.

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Raimondo D'Aronco then volunteered for military service and worked as a fortifications engineer in Turin, which gave him experience in timber construction.

Raimondo D'Aronco arrived in August 1893, and had completed the project within a few months.

Raimondo D'Aronco was first charged with restoring damaged monuments in the old city, and went on to design scores of buildings for the government and individuals.

Raimondo D'Aronco designed and built a large number of buildings of various types in Istanbul.

Raimondo D'Aronco made creative use of the forms and motifs of Islamic architecture to create modern buildings for the city.

Raimondo D'Aronco built a palace for the sultan's daughter Nazime Sultan, but this is no longer standing.

Raimondo D'Aronco presented a project for the building of the Regional Exposure of Udine of 1903.

Part of the merit for the rediscovery of Raimondo D'Aronco's work is attributed to the Italian architect Manfredi Nicoletti who in 1955 wrote the very first biography on his Art Nouveau drawings and architectures.