Adalberto Libera
Adalberto Libera (* July 16, 1903 in Villa Lagarina in Trento, † March 17, 1963 in Rome) was an important Italian architect, who is attributed to the Italian Rationalism. He built functional building in the Fascist period and was then active in social housing.
Biography
As early as 1927, while studying in Parma ( Istituto Statale d' Arte, 1925) and Rome ( Scuola Superiore di Architettura, 1928), to Adalberto Libera joined the Gruppo 7. In 1930 he was appointed secretary of this group of architects, which from this year MIAR called ( Movimento Italiano di Architettura Razionale may be translated as "Italian Movement for Rational Architecture ").
By Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1927, he was invited to Stuttgart Werkbund Exhibition. In Rome he organized in 1928 together with Gaetano Minucci the first exhibition of Architettura Razionale, also in the organization of the second, opened in Rome on March 30, 1931 exhibition, he was involved.
On this second exhibition MIAR involved a clear political position and published a manifesto addressed to Benito Mussolini, which in addition to their vision of a modern state architecture also contained a clear commitment to fascism. Due to the sharp demarcation of the architects of the prevailing Scuola Romana ( Roman School ) by Marcello Piacentini, whose monumental buildings in the exhibition with a photomontage tavolo degli orrori ( table of atrocities ) were denigrated the MIAR was however, dissolved by the National Fascist Association of Architects on May 9, 1931.
Despite this (artistic) disputes Libera was close to the Fascist Party of Italy, for which he worked as artistic advisor from 1932. He was, in 1932, significantly involved with Mario De Renzi, the in Via Marmorata he worked in Rome since 1930 been at the Palazzo delle Poste in shaping the official exhibition on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the fascist takeover. The Italian pavilion at the World Exhibition in Chicago (1933 ) and Brussels ( 1935) in collaboration with De Renzi. Another important design of the 1930s was the Congress Palace for the 1942 World's Fair planned E42 in Rome (completed after 1951 ).
The late thirties supported Libera the writer Curzio Malaparte on Capri in the design of the internationally famous Contempt by Jean -Luc Godard film by the Red Mansion.
In addition to the social housing (Cagliari, 1950-1953 ) and the residential development Unità d' orrizontale abitazione within the residential area Tuscolano in Rome is the government building in Trento is an important post-war design ( 1954-1962 ). For Libera late work include Christ the King Cathedral in La Spezia (1956-1969) and its 1960 residential buildings realized for the Olympic Village in Rome.
Adalberto Libera, the one next to Giuseppe Terragni the most important representatives of Italian architecture of modernism, died shortly before his 60th birthday on 17 March 1963 in Rome.