Giuseppe Pagano

Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig (* 1896 as Giuseppe or Joseph Pogatschnig in Poreč, Austria - Hungary, now Croatia, † April 22, 1945 in Mauthausen ) was an Italian architect and writer of Croatian origin.

Life

Pogatschnig, who had visited the Italian-speaking secondary school in Trieste, fled in 1914 to Italy and served during the First World War as a volunteer with an Austrian passport in the Italian army, where he, the Italian translation of his Croatian family name Pogatschnig assumed as a surname ( = der Heide ): Pagano.

1924 Pagano decided his studies in architecture at the Turin Polytechnic. In 1927 he was appointed Head of the International Exhibition in Turin. In 1928 he built the office building in Turin Gualino. Pagano was co-founder of Group 7, from which the rationalistic architectural movement Movimento Italiano per l' Architettura Razionale ( MIAR ) emerged. In 1930 he took over the management of the architectural magazine Casabella in Milan, which he held until 1943, together with Edoardo Persico. Together with Gio Ponti, he organized the 1933 and 1936 Milan Triennale. 1940 to 1943 he was editor of the architecture magazine Domus.

Since 1927, Pagano was a member of the Fascist Party, but distanced himself already in the 1930s, more and more of their ideology and stepped back from the party in 1942. In 1943, he joined the Resistance and was arrested in November 1943. After he escaped from prison in Brescia, in 1944 he was again arrested and taken to the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he died shortly before the war ended.

• Architect (Italy )
• Resistenzakämpfer
• Croatian
• Italian
• Born 1896
• Died in 1945
• Man