Vincenzo Monaco

Vincenzo Monaco (20 July 1911, Rome – 3 March 1969, Rome) was an Italian architect.

Works

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

Even before receiving a degree in architecture awarded in 1934 at the Sapienza University of Rome, he collaborated with F. Petrucci and C. Longo for national competitions: Four new postal buildings in Rome in 1933, New Clinical Hospital of Modena in 1934.

Career

In the 1936 he is in group with G. Calza Bini, S. Muratori, F. Petrucci, Ludovico Quaroni and E. Tedeschi, participating in the VI Triennale di Milano. In 1937 he start to work with Amedeo Luccichenti till the 1963. From the many partecipations in the fascist age contests, there are remarkable structures: Politic-touristic-custom buildings 1937, Office of the Fascist Confederation of traders 1939, the moving Bridge at Magliana, 1940. He join the competition for the E42 (EUR, Rome) for the Palazzo dei Congressi 1937-38 and others projects like the preparation for the "Mostra Augustea della Romanità" of the 1937. The collaboration between Vincenzo Monaco and Amedeo Luccichenti put a sign into several apartment buildings, villas and roman houses from the 1945 and the 1955, by an experimental and rational style, in addition with projects like the office of 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, the SIAE building in E.Gianturco street, Rome. During the presidency of Giovanni Gronchi, he realize the restructuring of the Lupa Hall at Palazzo Montecitorio, 1955. Subsequently other tasks such as 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 become a reference for the Ministry of Public Works, and manages the works of international engineering and architectural importance 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), Vittorio Cafiero, Pier Luigi Nervi. In the same years he realizes 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.

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