Angiolo Mazzoni
Italian architect and engineer (1894-1979)
Angiolo Mazzoni (21 May 1894 – 28 September 1979) was an Italian architect and engineer. He was the state architect of the Italian Fascist government of the 1920s and 1930s. Mazzoni designed hundreds of public buildings, post offices, and train stations during the Interwar period in Italy.
Life
Mazzoni was born in Bologna and was moved to Rome in 1905 with his parents, but returned to the Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, for his education. In 1920, Mazzoni practiced for about a year under Marcello Piacentini. The following year, he was engaged as an engineer with the Special Section of Railway Workers in Milan, then rose to a position in the newly formed Ministry of Communications in 1924, producing significant independent work by 1926.
Politically astute, Mazzoni also joined the National Fascist Party in 1926. He owed much of his success and influence to his intimate connections with the Fascist regime, and played a decisive role in using architecture to consolidate positive images of Fascism.
The Fascist regime engaged in a comprehensive national program of public works. As chief architect for the Ministry of Communications and for the State Railways, both key modernizing sectors of Fascist rebuilding programs, Mazzoni designed many of them.
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