Italo Gamberini Biography
Italo Gamberini (Florence, 1907 – 1990) was an Italian architect. With his degree thesis he conceived the basis of the project for the new passenger building of the Florence Santa Maria Novella station, built between 1932 and 1935 by the Tuscan Group, made up of Nello Baroni, Pier Niccolò Berardi, Sarre Guarnieri, Leonardo Lusanna, Giovanni Michelucci. He graduated from the then Higher School of Architecture in Florence in 1932, where he began his teaching activity as a voluntary assistant to Raffaello Brizzi. From 1945 he was a professor in charge of Elements of architecture and survey of monuments until 1961, when he became a full professor. Since 1965 he has also held the chair of Architectural Composition IV and V until 1977 as full professor and subsequently as non-tenured professor until 1982. Active mainly in Florence and Tuscany, Gamberini designed the BICA Building, the RAI regional headquarters in Florence, the State Archives of Florence, the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Pisa.