1873/80 Raffaele Canevari
(1828/1900)
“Girders and
beams of iron, cast iron columns, bolts and studs in sight. Raffaele Canevari,
engineer, used these new materials for their functionality and transformed them
into decorative elements” (Irene de Guttry)
“In this
work, totally his own, which is undoubtedly his best architectural job, the
technical and structural innovations and the ruthlessness of the formal
language make the building comparable to contemporary European examples, freed,
as it appears, of academic weight” (Guido Miano - Dizionario Biografico degli
Italiani Treccani)
Institution
founded in Florence in 1869 and moved to Rome in 1873 to complete the
geological Italian map
In 1960 the
Geological Office became the organ of
the state mapping for geological and geothematic mapping
In 1976 the
official geological coverage of the national territory in scale of 1:100,000
was completed
In 2002 the
Geological Survey merged in the Agenzia
per la Protezione dell'Ambiente e per i Servizi Tecnici (Agency for
Environmental Protection and Technical Services) (APAT, later ISPRA),
representing mainly the Dipartimento per
la Difesa del Suolo (Department for the Defense of the Soil)
In 2002
during renovation works in the basement of the building a section of the original
Servian Walls in blocks of cappellaccio
stone was found, proof that their dating can be fixed without a doubt to the
mid-sixth century BC
For the
reconstruction of the walls in 378 BC Grotta Oscura tufa was used
instead
GEOLOGICAL
MUSEUM
Collection
of about 150,000 artifacts accumulated in about 140 years of life of the
institution: marbles and paleontological materials with specialized library
and laboratory for analysis of minerals and rocks
The museum
and the whole building have been lying for years in conditions of extreme
neglect for the disgusting inefficiency or willful misconduct of the public
administration that has dismantled the museum for a renovation that never
happened, despite two governments have allocated public money to complete it.
Another disgrace of the caste which sadly administers Italy
In front of the palace
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