Alfonso Stocchetti (1 September 1920 – 4 June 2004) was an Italian architect.

Life and career

Stocchetti graduated in architecture from the

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in 1946. After a brief experience at the Superintendence of Monuments in

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(1946–1949), he moved to

Florence Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025. Florence ...

, where he became an assistant to Raffaello Fagnoni at the chair of building layout and distribution of the

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(1949). Together with Fagnoni, he participated in some notable projects, such as the new

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Montecatini Terme Montecatini Terme (Montecatini-Terme, according to Italian National Institute of Statistics, ISTAT documentation) is an Italian ''comune'' (municipality) of inhabitants in the province of Pistoia, in the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It ...

(1953–1958), alongside Pierluigi Spadolini and Mario Negri; the obstetric-gynecological clinic of the Careggi Hospital in Florence (1957–1961); and the residential district La Rosa in

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(1959–1961), with Spadolini and Enrico Cambi. In the 1950s and 1960s, Stocchetti designed several churches in Tuscany: Sacro Cuore in Casini, Quarrata (1954–1957); San Martino in Avane near

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(1955), demolished after a few years to make way for the Santa Barbara Mining Company quarry; the parish complex of the Immaculate Virgin Mary in Ginestra Fiorentina (1955–1958); the parish church of San Pio V in

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, in collaboration with architect Father Angelo Polesello (1965–1967); and the complex with a multi-purpose hall, nursery, and church of San Pio X in

San Giovanni Valdarno San Giovanni Valdarno is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Arezzo, Tuscany, central Italy, located in the valley of the Arno River. History According to the Italian medieval historian Giovanni Villani, the town was founded in 1296, by t ...

(completed in 1972–1974, with the addition of a bell tower in 1997). Stocchetti also designed the

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headquarters in

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(1951), the Autogrill in

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(1962), and the fruit and vegetable market in

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(1964), together with Mario Luzzetti. Noteworthy is also Villa Lorenzini, known as the "house on the cliff", in

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(

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), built between 1962 and 1965. Following Fagnoni's death in 1966, Stocchetti was appointed director of the Institute and the teaching of building layout and distribution, which in 1969 was renamed Social Architecture. In this role, he promoted various studies on building typologies, also in collaboration with the National Research Council, which resulted in the publication of the ''Quaderni dell'Istituto'' as well as a series of volumes. Starting in the 1970s, he dedicated himself to the study and design of hospital buildings, collaborating on the projects of the Provincial Psychiatric Institutes of Grosseto (1970), the Bernabeo Hospital in

Ortona Ortona ( Abruzzese: '; ) is a coastal town and municipality of the Province of Chieti in the Italian region of Abruzzo, with some 23,000 inhabitants. In 1943 Ortona was the site of the bloody Battle of Ortona, known as "Western Stalingrad". ...

(1980), and the Alfa Columbus complex in

Lastra a Signa Lastra a Signa is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the metropolitan city of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany, located about west of Florence. Main sights *Hospital of Sant'Antonio (1411) *"Brunelleschi" Walls, although the attribution to the ...

(1988-1994).

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