1953/54 Ugo Luccichenti (1898/1976)
While using the maximum building area available, he did not gave up on solutions of architectural value
"His activity is tied hand in glove with that of the Società Generale Immobiliare (General Realty Company), a company key protagonist of the capital's urban development and real estate throughout the last century, both for new buildings (...) both as regards with famous city 'demolitions', especially around the Vatican, under whose control the company went after the Lateran Treaty of '29 (...). Luccichenti for nearly thirty years has been a key player, able to mix in his works practicality and structural testing, economic needs and a refined language, his being 'engineer' while his being an 'architect'. For nearly thirty years he has been able to incorporate and consolidate the European and Italian lessons, from Giò Ponti to Mallet-Stevens, from Moretti to Mendelsohn, perfectly able to encode expressionist and rationalist influences, breaking codes just to give them new life through precise and never banal interpretations (...). Few like him have managed to combine architecture with the relentless demands of commitments" (Luca Nicotera - (h) ortus, architecture magazine)
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