Piero Portaluppi [SEP] place of death
Piero Portaluppi
Piero Portaluppi (19 March 1888 – 6 July 1967) was an Italian architect.
Biography.
Pietro (called Piero) Portaluppi was born in Milan, son of the engineer Luisa Gadda e Oreste.
He graduated in 1905 from the Istituto tecnico Carlo Cattaneo and registered at the Politecnico, studying with Enrico Agostino Griffini and Carlo Calzecchi. During this time, he worked as a caricaturist with the satirical newspapers "Il Babau", "A quel paese", and "Il Guerin Meschino".
tower over it in the shape of a prism. An example of expressionist architecture, the geometrical synthesis of its structure evoked the architecture of the Pre-Columbian era.
- Italian Pavilion: designed by Piero Portaluppi, this was located between the Spanish and Swedish pavilions. It had a surface area of 4,500 m, in the shape of a U, a renaissance classical style and a monumental atmosphere. The façade had some columns with the eagle of the Roman Empire, a frieze with the country's name and a fronton