Armando Ronca (13 September 1901 – 19 March 1970) was an Italian architect who has executed numerous buildings and interior designs, mainly in South Tyrol, Trentino and Milan.[1]
Life
[edit]Armando Ronca studied engineering in Genoa, Turin and Padua. In the mid-1930s, Ronca moved to South Tyrol, and influenced significantly the architecture of Bolzano and Merano until well into the 1960s.
Selected projects
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- 1935: Villa Cembran, Merano
- 1938–40: Palazzo del Turismo (Cinema Corso), Bolzano (demolished 1988)[2]
- 1952: "Rainerum" institute, Bolzano
- 1955: Extension of the "San Siro" football stadium, Milan
- 1959: "Eurotel" hotel complex, Merano
- 1964: "INA-Casa" residential complex, Bolzano
- 1970: Pius X church, Bolzano
Exhibitions
[edit]- 2017: Armando Ronca, Architektur der Moderne in Südtirol, 1935–1970, Kunst Meran / Merano Arte, Merano
Bibliography
[edit]- Flavio Schimenti. Armando Ronca. Memorie di Architettura a Bolzano e in Alto Adige, 1929–1969, Praxis 3, Bolzano 1999
- Kunst Meran, Andreas Kofler, Magdalene Schmidt, Jörg Stabenow (eds). Armando Ronca: Architektur der Moderne in Südtirol, 1935–1970, Zürich 2017
- Roman Hollenstein: "Mailand in den Alpen". In Neue Zürcher Zeitung, November 21, 2017, p. 36.
References
[edit]- ^ Feiersinger, Werner. Armando Ronca: Architektur der Moderne in Südtirol 1935–1970. Kunst Meran, Kunst, Kofler, Andreas, Schmidt, Magdalene, Stabenow, Jörg, Kofler, Andreas, Martignoni, Massimo. Zürich. ISBN 9783038600619. OCLC 988179618.
- ^ Obermair, Hannes. Lavori in Corso—Die Bozner Freiheitsstraße. Fabrizio Miori, Maurizio Pacchiani. Bozen-Bolzano: La Fabbrica del Tempo—Die Zeitfabrik. pp. 30–2. ISBN 978-88-943205-2-7.