Achille Manfredini
Achille Manfredini (13 May 1869 – 3 March 1920) was an Italian engineer and architect, one of the best known exponents of the floral style in Milan and who also worked in the city of Messina.
Biography
Born in Catanzaro of Milanese parents, he graduated as a civil engineer from the Milan Polytechnic in 1891. In 1905, he built the Lancia house showing a facade encrusted with heavy decoration. The building was demolished in 1939 to make way for the Palace of the Bank of Rome by architect Cesare Scoccimarro.
In 1907, Manfredini built the Kursaal Diana; and designer of a thirteen-story Milanese skyscraper in the square of S. Giovanni in Conca (1913/14).
Manfredini was also the editor of the Monitore tecnico, a magazine he founded. The Monitore tecnico came out with the first issue in "Milan, Dec. 15, 1894 - Journal of architecture, civil and industrial engineering, construction and related arts."
References
- Catini, Raffaella (2007). "Manfredini, Achille." In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Vol. 68. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
- Rumi, Giorgio; Decleva, Enrico (1993). Milano nell'Italia liberale, 1898-1922. Milano: Cariplo.
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- 1869 births
- 1920 deaths
- 19th-century Italian architects
- 20th-century Italian architects
- 19th-century Italian engineers
- 20th-century Italian engineers
- Italian magazine founders
- People from Catanzaro
- Polytechnic University of Milan alumni
- University of Pavia alumni
