Guido Ferrazza

Guido Ferrazza
Born	(1887-03-19)19 March 1887 Bocenago, Austria-Hungary
Died	1 February 1961(1961-02-01) (aged 73) Cassano d'Adda, Province of Milan, Italy
Alma mater	Polytechnic University of Milan Brera Academy
Occupation(s)	Architect, urban planner

Guido Ferrazza (19 March 1887 – 1 February 1961) was an Italian architect and urban planner.

Life and career

A native of Trentino, Ferrazza graduated in civil architecture from the Regio Istituto Tecnico Superiore in 1912 and obtained a teaching qualification in architectural drawing from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.^[1]

He frequently collaborated with Alberto Alpago-Novello and Ottavio Cabiati, and was one of the leading professionals active in Cyrenaica and Eritrea in the context of colonial architecture.^[2] From 1939 to 1941, he worked in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.^[1][3]

He returned to Italy in July 1943 and took part in the Resistance in Lombardy, where he was a member of the National Liberation Committee for Northern Italy. From 1946 to 1949, he worked for the regional office of public works in Trentino-Alto Adige.^[1]

Between 1949 and 1951, he directed the implementation of the master plan for San Juan, Argentina.^[1]

He died on 1 February 1961 in Cassano d'Adda in a railway accident.^[1]

References

1. Talamona, Marida (1996). "FERRAZZA, Guido". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Vol. 46. Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
2. Zanella, Francesca (2002). Alpago Novello, Cabiati e Ferrazza 1912-1935. Milan: Electa.
3. Santoianni, Vittorio (2008). Il Razionalismo nelle colonie italiane 1928-1943. La «nuova architettura» delle Terre d'Oltremare (PDF). Naples: Università di Napoli.

Sources

• Burg, Annegret (1991). Novecento milanese. Milan: Motta.
• Graziella Leyla Ciagà, ed. (2003). Gli archivi di architettura in Lombardia. Censimento delle fonti. Milan: Centro di Alti Studi sulle Arti Visive.
• Giuliano Gresleri; Pier Giorgio Masseretti; Stefano Zagnoni, eds. (1993). Architettura italiana d'oltremare 1870-1940. Venice: Marsilio.
• Santoianni, Vittorio (2008). Il Razionalismo nelle colonie italiane 1928-1943. La «nuova architettura» delle Terre d'Oltremare (PDF). Naples: Università di Napoli.
• Talamona, Marida (1996). "FERRAZZA, Guido". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Vol. 46. Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
• Zanella, Francesca (2002). Alpago Novello, Cabiati e Ferrazza 1912-1935. Milan: Electa.

External links

• "Ottavio Cabiati". Enciclopedia Online. Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
• "Cabiati Ottavio". siusa.archivi.beniculturali.it. Sistema Informativo Unificato per le Soprintendenze Archivistiche.