Alfio Fallica ( Paternò , April 18 1898 – Catania , 15th of July 1971 ) was a architect And sculptor Italian .
Of humble origins, Fallica left the city at a very young age Sicily to move to Rome where he attended Higher School of Architecture. In the capital he dedicated himself to painting and to sculpture.
Over the course of twenties he took part in several exhibitions, the first in 1925 at the II Rome Biennale. Read the full biography
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Alfio Fallica ( Paternò , April 18 1898 – Catania , 15th of July 1971 ) was a architect And sculptor Italian .
Of humble origins, Fallica left the city at a very young age Sicily to move to Rome where he attended Higher School of Architecture. In the capital he dedicated himself to painting and to sculpture.
Over the course of twenties he took part in several exhibitions, the first in 1925 at the II Rome Biennale. He also participated in the III International Exhibition of Monza and to II Stuttgart Werkbund Exhibition (1927), and at the I Italian Exhibition of Rational Architecture in Rome (1928).
Furthermore, in 1927 he won first prize in the competition for the monument to Rome financial police. Graduated in architecture In the 1931, lived between Rome and Catania, where the following year he married a woman from Alta bourgeoisie town, with whom he had three children.
As an architect he dedicated himself to civil architecture, furniture, sculpture and painting and engraving. His style was predominantly Art deco, baroque And neoclassical.
Fallica was responsible for designing numerous buildings in Catania of post-war period, but also of different ones churches throughout the Etna province. In his hometown, Paternò, he designed in 1960 the building that six years later housed the headquarters of the Santissimo Salvatore Hospital.