Eugenio Montuori Biography
Eugenio Montuori (Pesaro, 16 July 1907 – Rome, 4 January 1982) was an Italian architect. Following the dictates of rationalism, he expanded the urban plan of the foundation of the city of Carbonia (initially drawn up by Cesare Valle and Ignazio Guidi in 1937-38), in the geographical area of Sulcis in Sardinia; this second urbanization plan envisaged that the city could be able to accommodate 35,000 inhabitants. He also participated in the creation of the cities of Sabaudia and the aforementioned Carbonia, and of the coal mining town of Pozzo Littorio d'Arsia, today Piedalbona, in Croatian Istria. After the Second World War he was among the winners, together with Leo Calini and the Vitellozzi studio, of the competition for the completion of the new Termini station whose construction had been interrupted in 1943 due to war events and the fall of the fascist regime. He participated, as part of the INA-Casa plan, in the construction projects in Rome of the public housing of Valco San Paolo and Torre Spaccata. Together with Giuseppe Nicolosi, he created, also in Torre Spaccata, the parish church of Santa Maria Regina Mundi. He collaborated with the architect Adalberto Libera on various projects including the Airone cinema in Rome, with frescoes by Capogrossi. He designed a building in Pescara which now houses the "Vittoria Colonna" Museum of Modern Art. He died in Rome, at seventy-four years old, in 1982.
