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Adalberto Libera was born in Villa Lagarina in the County of Tyrol of Austria-Hungary (now in Trentino) in northern Italy.He graduated from Parma's Institute of Art in 1925 and then in 1928 from Rome's Scuola Superiore di Architettura he became acquainted with Futurism through his fellow Trentino Fortunato Depero.
Adalberto Libera Casa Malaparte (also Villa Malaparte ) is a house on Punta Massullo, on the eastern side of the isle of Capri , Italy . It is considered to be one of the best examples of Italian modern and contemporary architecture .
After the dissolution of the group, its distinguished figures Giuseppe Terragni (Casa del Fascio, Como), Adalberto Libera (Villa Malaparte in Capri) and Giovanni Michelucci (Santa Maria Novella Station in Florence, in collaboration) emerged.
Gruppo 7 logo (1929). Gruppo 7 was a group of Italian architects who wanted to reform architecture by the adoption of Rationalism.It was formed in 1926 by Luigi Figini [], Guido Frette [], Sebastiano Larco Silva [], Gino Pollini, Carlo Enrico Rava [], Giuseppe Terragni and Ubaldo Castagnoli [], replaced the following year by Adalberto Libera.
The palazzo was designed by Adalberto Libera for the 1942 Universal Exposition. Construction started in 1938 but was cancelled due to World War II. It was completed in 1954. Due to its large size, the palazzo hosted the fencing part of the modern pentathlon events for the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Alfieri was involved in the project with a group of young, radical artists including, among others, the painters Mario Sironi and Achille Funi and the rationalist architects Adalberto Libera and Giuseppe Terragni. The artists were called to translate the epic of the Fascist Revolution into plastic form making use of contemporary styles in ...
In 1926, a group of young architects – Sebastiano Larco, Guido Frette, Carlo Enrico Rava, Adalberto Libera, Luigi Figini, Gino Pollini and Giuseppe Terragni (1904–43) – founded the so-called Gruppo 7, publishing their manifesto in the magazine Rassegna Italiana.
EUR (Italian:) is a residential area and the major business district in Rome, Italy, part of the Municipio IX.. The area was originally chosen in the 1930s as the site for the 1942 World's Fair which Benito Mussolini planned to open to celebrate twenty years of Fascism, the letters EUR standing for Esposizione Universale Roma ("Rome Universal Exposition").