Aldo Morbelli Biography
Aldo Morbelli was born in 1903 in Orsara. After attending technical schools in Alessandria, he moved to Turin in 1920, where he enrolled in the first year of the Faculty of Architecture in 1921. He continued his studies at the Faculty of Architecture in Rome, at the time dominated by important figures such as Piacentini and Giovannoni, where he graduated in 1926 together with illustrious colleagues such as Libera, Picconato, Vietti and Morozzo della Rocca.
Returning to Turin, he collaborated with Annibale Rigotti and became an assistant at the Faculty of Architecture starting from 1930. Between 1932 and 1933, he carried out restoration work for the Superintendency of Monuments of Piedmont. In 1934, he left Rigotti's studio to join that of Giuseppe Momo, with whom he collaborated mainly on the construction of the Apostolic Palaces of the Vatican, as well as for numerous competitions. In 1938, after winning the competition for the Teatro Regio, which had been destroyed in the fire of 8 February 1936, he opened his independent studio. Thus begins a complex story that will lead Morbelli and the architects Robaldo Morozzo della Rocca and Morelli to develop seven projects for the Teatro Regio, the last of which will be definitive in 1962. However, the Municipality will abandon the project in 1963, after the death of Morbelli, opting for the one created later by Carlo Mollino.
In the 1930s he dealt with the renovation of family properties in Orsara Bormida, and created villas, funerary chapels and furnishings especially in Turin. During the war period, on the recommendation of Marcello Piacentini, he dedicated himself to studies and consultancy for the Aosta Town Plan.
From 1950 to 1961, he collaborated with Roberto Graziosi and Franco Mancini, with whom he created numerous villas in the Biella area, in the Aosta Valley and in the province of Turin, as well as residential buildings in Turin and Biella, interior furnishings and funerary aedicules. Among the works in Turin after the Second World War, the Alexandra cinema (1947) and Ambrosio (1954), the Rai Auditorium (1952), the hall designed together with Carlo Mollino, the Sip offices (1952) with R. Graziosi are worthy of note , F. Mancini and M. Pochettino, as well as the works for Rai (1962-63) in collaboration with DS Morelli.
