Vincenzo Monaco

Vincenzo Monaco (20 July 1911, Rome – 3 March 1969, Rome) was an Italian architect, who collaborated with Amedeo Luccichenti from 1933 to 1963. During this period, Monaco designed over 450 projects, of which approximately 100 were realized and constructed. His architectural prowess can be seen in buildings located in Rome, Pisa, Naples, Taranto, Dalmatia, Persia, France and Tunisia.

Works

Even before receiving a degree in architecture from Sapienza University of Rome in 1934, Vincenzo Monaco collaborated with F. Petrucci and C. Longo in national competitions: in 1933, to design four new postal buildings in Rome, and in 1934, to design the new Clinical Hospital of Modena.

In collaboration with Amedeo Luccichenti, he worked on the preparation of Mostra Augustea of Roman (1938), on plans for the 'Palazzo dei Congressi' in EUR (1938) (with buildings and the square of the Forze Armate, villa Petacci at the Camilluccia), on a building in S. Valentino street 1948-50, on buildings at Circo Massimo (1953), on the Olympic Village (1958-60), and on the Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport (1960). He also worked on the SIAE building at EUR (1963-65), the Roccaraso Church (1966), and the Jolly Hotel in Rome (1968).

Career

In 1936, Monaco participated together with G. Calza Bini, S. Muratori, F. Petrucci, Ludovico Quaroni and E. Tedeschi, in the VI Triennale di Milano. In 1937, he started working with Amedeo Luccichenti, an association which lasted until 1963. Many of Monaco's works resulted from contests held during the fascist age. Examples include the Politic-touristic-custom buildings (1937), Office of the Fascist Confederation of traders (1939), and the moving Bridge at Magliana (1940). He joined the competition E42 (EUR, Rome) for the Palazzo dei Congressi (1937-38) and other projects including the preparation for the "Mostra Augustea della Romanità" (1937.)

The collaboration between Monaco and Amedeo Luccichenti influenced the design of several apartment buildings, villas and roman houses from 1945 to 1955. In particular, the pair are noted for their experimental and rational style, which can be seen in the representative office of the Shipping Company of Italy in Rome, the pavilion of Finsider at Chicago, the airtravel agency KLM in Barberini street in Rome, the Lancia shop, and the SIAE building in E.Gianturco street, Rome. During the presidency of Giovanni Gronchi, he realized the restructuring of the Lupa Hall at Palazzo Montecitorio (1955). Other works include the enlargement of Castelporziano, the official palace in San Rossore, the Villa Maria Pia in the estate of the president, Villa Rosebery in Naples.

At the end of the 50's, the Monaco-Luccichenti Studio[1] become a reference for the Ministry of Public Works, and managed the international engineering and architectural work for the 1960 Summer Olympics (XVII Olympiad) in Rome, including the Olympic Village near the Stadium and the Viaduct (1957–60), in collaboration with Adalberto Libera, Luigi Moretti (architect), and Vittorio Cafiero, Pier Luigi Nervi. In the same years he realized the Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport, Rome (1957–60).

Other works to remember are: In Rome in 1948, Palazzina Street S. Valentino, 3; buildings between S.Crescenziano street and Via Salaria (Villa Ada Park); 1949 Building in Viale Parioli, 92-96; Buildings in via Circo Massimo 1-9; Villas in Fregene and Santa Marinella; 1951 Offices Building in Via Po; 1957 apartments building in Via Archimede 156; Building in Via Stoppani, 10; 1953 Building in Avenue Villa Grazioli, 26; Building in via Ximenes, 3; 1962 Buildings intensive in Via Prenestina, 4; 1964 Office building SIAE, viale dell'Arte at EUR; 1965, Palace at viale della Tecnica; 1968–69, Office building, in via Silvio d'Amico, (with his brother Ing. Pietro Monaco 1910-1997) the roof is designed by G. Capogrossi; Palace of Confindustria, in viale dell'Astronomia n.30, EUR district, realized with his son architect Edoardo Monaco, and the parking was designed by the artist Giuseppe Capogrossi; 1969–71, The Jolly Hotel building in Corso d'Italia beside Villa Borghese Park. Offices SLE-ICOR Rome-Eur. In Tunis, he realizes the Complex for Congresses and banquets "La Salle des Fêtes". In the 1960, the construction of furniture of the class of Ships SS Leonardo da Vinci (1960) and SS Michelangelo with preparation and supervision with Nino Zoncada and Giulio Carlo Argan, the works of many contemporary artists: Giuseppe Capogrossi, Cagli, Antonio Corpora Giulio Turcato, Giuseppe Santomaso, Roberto Aloi, Tranquillo Marangoni, Salvatore Fiume, Gino Severini, Emanuele Luzzati, Lojze Spacal.

For the commitment and the importance of relief assumed in modern architectural movement in Italy, in the years of the spread of the Italian genius in the world, during the years of reconstruction in the Second World War Italian he was awarded Nov. 25 1968 the honor of Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

In 2015 he is remembered with Giuseppe Capogrossi as "Studio Monaco Luccichenti" at the MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome, in the free permanent exhibition.

In his life and career he met and worked with Giuseppe Pagano, the architect Julio Lafuente, the painter Gino Severini, the sculptor Pericle Fazzini, the painter Angelo Savelli, the painter Giuseppe Capogrossi, the poet engineer Leonardo Sinisgalli, poets Libero de Libero and Giuseppe Ungaretti, the writer Alberto Moravia, the critic Giulio Carlo Argan, the sculptor Pietro Consagra and painters Antonio Corpora, Giulio Turcato, Alberto Burri and others.

References

Note

  1. ↑ http://www.artribune.com/tag/studio-monaco-e-luccichenti/
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