Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo [SEP] place of death
Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo
Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo (Rome, 1890 - Rome, 1966) was an Italian architect. He was a prominent representative of Italian Rationalist architecture of the 1930s.
big pavilion was built around it by architect Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo as part of Benito Mussolini's attempt to create an ancient Roman "theme park" to glorify Fascist Italy. Several dozens of the buildings surrounding the Mausoleum were leveled to free up space around the monument. This led to a great number of complaints from locals, starting a long series of arguments and criticisms of the Ara Pacis project. These arguments are ongoing despite having the original pavilion replaced by a new one in 2006, known as "Ara Pacis museum".