Arturo Mezzedimi (19 June 1922 – 30 May 2010) was an Italian architect who worked principally in

Italian East Africa Italian East Africa ( it, Africa Orientale Italiana, AOI) was an Italian colony in the Horn of Africa. It was formed in 1936 through the merger of Italian Somalia, Italian Eritrea, and the newly occupied Ethiopian Empire, conquered in the Se ...

. He designed more than a hundred buildings in the

Horn of Africa The Horn of Africa (HoA), also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa.Robert Stock, ''Africa South of the Sahara, Second Edition: A Geographical Interpretation'', (The Guilford Press; 2004), ...

, among them

Addis Ababa City Hall The Addis Ababa City Hall ( am, አዲስ አበባ ማዘጋጃ ቤት) is a governmental department that houses the offices of the Municipality of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. History Along with Africa Hall, the UNECA headquarters, the Addis Abab ...

and

Africa Hall Africa Hall is the permanent headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The structure, built in the span of only 18 months, was completed in February 1961. It covers an overall area o ...

,Architecture Beyond Europe: Aspirations and Contradictions in Shaping A Cosmopolitan Africa: Arturo Mezzedimi (''Textes intégral'')
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planned Planning is the process of thinking regarding the activities required to achieve a desired goal. Planning is based on foresight, the fundamental capacity for mental time travel. The evolution of forethought, the capacity to think ahead, is co ...

more than twenty urban centres in Ethiopia. In 1965 he received the Mangia d'Oro prize of the city of Siena, and in 1972 was made a Grande Ufficiale of the

Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana The Order of Merit of the Italian Republic ( it, Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana) is the senior Italian order of merit. It was established in 1951 by the second President of the Italian Republic, Luigi Einaudi. The highest-ranking ...

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20th-century Italian architects 1922 births 2010 deaths Italian expatriates in Ethiopia {{Italy-architect-stub