Adolfo Natalini (10 May 1941 – 23 January 2020) was an
Italian
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architect.
Biography
Natalini founded the architectural company
Superstudio Superstudio was an architectural firm, founded in 1966 in Florence, Italy by Adolfo Natalini and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, later joined by Gian Piero Frassinelli, Alessandro and Roberto Magris, Alessandro Poli.
Superstudio was a major part of t ...
in 1966 along with Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, Gian Piero Frassinelli, Alessandro and Roberto Magris, and Alessandro Poli.
At the end of the 1970s, Natalini became a member of the Architectural School of Pistoia with
Roberto Barni, Umberto Buscioni, and Gianni Ruffi. He was one of the pioneers of the ''radical architettura'' movement of the 1960s and 70s. During this period, Natalini focused on projects in
Italy
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and other parts of
Europe
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.
Natalini served as a professor of architecture at the
University of Florence
The University of Florence ( Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Firenze'', UniFI) is an Italian public research university located in Florence, Italy. It comprises 12 schools and has around 50,000 students enrolled.
History
The first univer ...
. He was an honorary member of the
Association of German Architects
The Association of German Architects (German: ''Bund Deutscher Architekten'', BDA) is an association of architects founded in 1903 in Germany. It publishes the bimonthly magazine ''der architekt''. The BDA has over 5,000 members. In 1995, it fo ...
, the
Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects (Hon. FAIA) may be awarded to foreign (non-U.S. citizen) architects and for non-architects who have made great contributions to the field of architecture or to the American Institute of Ar ...
, the
Accademia delle Arti del Disegno
The Accademia delle Arti del Disegno ("Academy of the Arts of Drawing") is an academy of artists in Florence, Italy. Founded as Accademia e Compagnia delle Arti del Disegno ("Academy and Company of the Arts of Drawing") on 13 January 1563 by ...
, the
Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara is a public tertiary education, tertiary academy of art in Carrara, in Tuscany, Italy. It was founded on 26 September 1769 by Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, duchess of Massa, Tuscany, Massa and princess of ...
, and the
Accademia di San Luca
The Accademia di San Luca (the "Academy of Saint Luke") is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its f ...
.
Some of his projects include the
Römerberg
Römerberg is a municipality in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the left bank of the Rhine, approximately southwest of Speyer
Speyer (, older spelling ''Speier'', French: ''Spire,'' historical En ...
in
Frankfurt
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, the
Western Wall
The Western Wall ( he, הַכּוֹתֶל הַמַּעֲרָבִי, HaKotel HaMa'aravi, the western wall, often shortened to the Kotel or Kosel), known in the West as the Wailing Wall, and in Islam as the Buraq Wall (Arabic: حَائِط ...
in
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
, the Bank of
Alzate Brianza, the
Zola Predosa Power Center, and the
Saalgasse House in Frankfurt.
Natalini's works in
Florence
Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico ...
include the Teatro della Compagnia and the
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo.
Adolfo Natalini died on 23 January 2020 at the age of 78.
References
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1941 births
2020 deaths
20th-century Italian architects
21st-century Italian architects
People from Pistoia