Giuseppe_Sommaruga

Giuseppe Sommaruga

Giuseppe Sommaruga

Italian architect

Giuseppe Sommaruga (1867–1917) was an Italian architect of the Liberty style or Art nouveau movement. He was the pupil of Camillo Boito and Luca Beltrami to the Brera Academy in Milan. His monumental architecture exerted some influence[1] on the futurist architect Antonio Sant'Elia.

Villa Romeo Faccanoni in Milan (1911-1913). Photo by Paolo Monti.

Some of his works:

References

  1. [1]
    Futurist architecture and Angiolo Mazzoni’s manifesto of aerial architecture, published in VV.AA. Angiolo Mazzoni e l'Architettura Futurista - p.11

Bibliography

  • (in Italian and English) VV.AA. Angiolo Mazzoni e l'Architettura Futurista, Supplement of CE.S.A.R. September/December 2008 (Available at "CEntro Studi Architettura Razionalista - Research centre for rationalist architecture - Notebooks". 2011. Archived from the original on 2016-03-11.)
  • Andrea Speziali. Italian Liberty. Una nuova stagione dell'Art Nouveau, Risguardi, Forlì 2015


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