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Giuseppe Sommaruga 
Summary
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.
Some of his works:
- Grand Hotel Campo dei Fiori in Campo dei Fiori, close to Varese (1909–1912)
- Mausoleo Faccanoni in Sarnico (1907)
- Villa Faccanoni in Sarnico
- Palazzina Salmoiraghi, Milan (destroyed)
- Palazzo Castiglioni (1901–1904) in Milan
- Villa Romeo Faccanoni (1912-1914), now part of Clinica Columbus, in Milan
References edit
- ^ Futurist architecture and Angiolo Mazzoni’s manifesto of aerial architecture, published in VV.AA. Angiolo Mazzoni e l'Architettura Futurista - p.11
Bibliography edit
- (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
External links edit
- Website to celebrate the centennial of his death