1950 Marcello
Piacentini (1881/1960) with Attilio Spaccarelli
(1890/1975) while working on the completion of Via della Conciliazione
“In
1943 he was arrested because he hadn't joined the Social Republic the reformed
Fascist Party, but, thanks to the intervention of Cardinal G.B. Montini he was
released. (...) In 1945, invited to settle in Latin America to draw up plans
and zoning of large cities, he chose to remain in Rome, where he reopened his
studio of Tor di Nona with Giorgio Calza Bini and the design office on Via
della Conciliazione with Attilio Spaccarelli. In 1949 he was a member of the
Supreme Council of Antiquities and Fine Arts of the Ministry of Public
Education. In 1950, with Virgilio Testa, he took part in initiatives to boost
the EUR. When preparing the infrastructures for the Olympics in Rome, he died,
almost on the eve of the historic event, on May 18, 1960. Revealing himself
stylistically as a very early mediator and blender of different styles and
remaining, in his essential development, linked to an eclectic and monumental
style, despite the update of his works in the years 1915/20 on the stylistic
themes of the Viennese Secession, he was frantically busy throughout Italy”
(Alberto Perconte Licata - www. albertoperconte.it)
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