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Roberto Gabetti
Italian architect From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Roberto Gabetti (29 November 1925 – 5 December 2000) was an Italian architect, designer and photographer.
Life and career
A student of Giovanni Muzio, Gabetti graduated in 1949 at the Polytechnic University of Turin, where he became professor of Architectural Composition in 1967. He played a key role in reforming the school's educational model and was director of the Central Architecture Library until 1986.
In the early 1950s, Gabetti co-founded a practice with Aimaro Oreglia d'Isola, with whom he collaborated throughout his career. Their early works—such as the Palazzo della Borsa Valori (1952) and the Bottega d'Erasmo (1954) in Turin—marked a deliberate departure from the International Style, embracing "a polemical return of the disciplined rigor of the eclectic method" (Treccani).[1][2] Gabetti became known as one of the leading figures of the Neo-liberty movement.[3]
His most notable works include the Olivetti Residential Center in Ivrea (1969–74), the Carmelite monastery in Quart (1985–89), and the church of San Giovanni Battista in Desio (1994–99).[1][4]
He died in Turin in 2000.[1] Gabetti's design works are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York[5] and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.[6]
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Books (selection)
- Alle radici dell'architettura contemporanea (with Carlo Olmo, 1989)
- Lezioni piemontesi (1997)
- Imparare l'architettura (1997)
- Case e chiese (1998)
Awards
- Antonio Feltrinelli Prize from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (1988)[7]
- International Prize "Architectures in Stone" (1991)[8]
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