Adamo Boari

Adamo Boari ( born October 22, 1863 in Marrara at Ferrara, † February 24, 1928 in Rome ) was an Italian civil engineer and architect.

Biography

Boari studied at the University of Ferrara and then at the University of Bologna, where he graduated in 1886. After he had done some architecture and design jobs in Turin, he went to Brazil in 1889, where he was tasked with organizing an exhibition and especially Buenos Aires and Montevideo traveled. After he had brought to Brazil a yellow fever disease behind him, he went to the United States and settled there in Chicago. In 1899, he got admission as a foreign architect to work professionally in the United States may not. In 1903 he went to Mexico, where he was through the work of several churches (1898), the " Templo Gotic " ( 1999, dt: Church ) and a monument to the dictator Porfirio Díaz ( 1900) made ​​a name. He was then Díaz with the construction of the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City instructed (German: " Palace of Fine Arts " ) and the Palacio Postal ( " Postal Palace " dt ). Some of the design work he did in the studio of Frank Lloyd Wright. The Palacio Postal was completed in 1907. Although Boari had started the construction of Palacio de Bellas Artes in 1901, he could not finish it due to the beginning of the Mexican Revolution and the associated technical and economic difficulties. In 1916 he returned to Italy, where he initially to Rome. In Italy, he was coincidentally commissioned in his hometown with the project management of the New Theatre of Ferrara, then finishing his brother Sesto. Some elements of this theater reminiscent of the Mexican National Theatre at the Palacio de Bellas Artes.

The completion of the Palacio de Bellas Artes took place after the death Boaris in 1934.