Luigi Angelini Biography
Luigi Angelini, born in Bergamo in 1884, was an Italian architect. He graduated in Engineering from the Regio Istituto Tecnico Superiore (later Polytechnic) of Milan in 1907. In 1909-11, he worked at the studio of the architect Marcello Piacentini in Rome, then collaborating with him starting from 1921 in the direction of the works for the new center of the lower city of Bergamo, designed by the Roman architect.
Angelini received numerous public positions in Bergamo, including that of honorary inspector of Monuments, Galleries and Antiquities, director of the "A. Fantoni" School of Applied Arts (1922-33) and president of the Provincial Commission for the Protection of Natural Beauty (1946-68). As a protagonist of the Bergamo architectural culture of the first half of the 20th century, he designed 34 civil buildings, 66 public buildings, 2 industrial buildings, 72 funerary buildings (tombs, chapels and cemeteries), 35 churches, 21 bell towers, 32 restorations and renovations, 20 church expansions.
Among his most significant works in the Bergamo capital are the Casa Gregis (1912), the headquarters of the Bank of Commerce (1923), the Farmer's House (1928) and the restorations of the cloister of Santa Marta, the small temple of Santa Croce and of the convent of San Nicolò dei Celestini.
The project that gave him fame at a national level was the Bergamo Alta Redevelopment Plan, approved with applause in 1935 by the Superior Council of Public Works, among the very first examples in Europe of attention towards historic centres. Angelini also had a notable journalistic production, with 642 titles.
Luigi Angelini died in Bergamo in 1969.
