Egle Renata Trincanato Biography
Daughter of Alessandro and Antonietta Alice Formenti, she was born in Rome where her father, a merchant originally from Piove di Sacco, was at the time on business. Because of her work, the family moved several times (to Mira, to Trieste, again to Mira and to Fiume) before finally settling in Venice, in the San Polo district, in 1926. The first woman of the Venetian university, she graduated in architecture in 1938 with Guido Cirilli[1]. In 1937 he met the Palermo architect Giuseppe Samonà, with whom he established an important professional and academic partnership. Since 1939 he has been assistant of Elements of architecture and survey of monuments[1]. He published his studies on the morphology and residential building fabric of Venice in Venezia Minore (1948)[1]. In parallel he dedicated himself to the study of new types of residential construction aimed at solving the problems of the contemporary city, exhibiting at the seventh edition of the Congrés Internationaux de Architecture Moderne (Ciam) in 1954[1]. With Samonà he created the INA-Casa building in Treviso (1949-1953), the new INAIL offices in Venice (1951-1956) and collaborated on the experimental design of the INA-Casa San Giuliano neighborhood in Mestre[1]. Following this assignment, the Ina-casa management entrusted her with the construction of buildings in Sant'Agata sul Santerno (RA) (1952-1956) and the Incis houses on the Lido of Venice (1954-1957)[1]. From 1954 to 1964 he assumed the prestigious position of director of the Palazzo Ducale, engaging in the restoration of Palazzo Ducale, Ca' Pesaro, Museo Correr, Ca' Centani Goldoni, and took care of the conception and staging of important exhibitions of Venetian painting[1 ]. Active presence in the National Institute of Urban Planning (INU) since 1954, it is strenuously committed to the battle for the protection of Venice, with articles, conferences and exhibitions dedicated to the problems of the lagoon city, Venice alive, and Behind the palaces, and to the destiny of Italian historic centers[1]. He collaborates with Samonà, both in the university and professional fields, on plans and competition projects for the new Sacca del Tronchetto in Venice (1964), for the new university complexes in Cagliari and Calabria (1972-1973), for the management center of Florence, for the triumphal arch of the Tête Défense in Paris (1977-1982)[1].
