Armando Ronca (13 September 1901 – 19 March 1970) was an Italian architect who has executed numerous buildings and interior designs, mainly in South Tyrol, Trentino and Milan.
Life
Armando Ronca studied engineering in Genoa, Turin and Padua. In the mid-1930s, Ronca moved to South Tyrol, and influenced significantly the architecture of Bolzano and Merano until well into the 1960s.
Selected projects
Armando Ronca: Residential tower of the INA-Casa residential complex (1964), Bolzano
1935: Villa Cembran, Merano
1938–40: Palazzo del Turismo (Cinema Corso), Bolzano (demolished 1988)
1952: Rainerum Institute, Bolzano
1955: Extension of the "San Siro" football stadium, Milan
2017: Armando Ronca, Architektur der Moderne in Südtirol, 1935–1970, Kunst Meran / Merano Arte, Merano
Bibliography
Flavio Schimenti. Armando Ronca. Memorie di Architettura a Bolzano e in Alto Adige, 1929–1969, Praxis 3, Bolzano 1999
Kunst Meran, Andreas Kofler, Magdalene Schmidt, Jörg Stabenow (eds). Armando Ronca: Architektur der Moderne in Südtirol, 1935–1970, Zürich 2017
Roman Hollenstein: "Mailand in den Alpen". In Neue Zürcher Zeitung, November 21, 2017, p.36.
References
↑Feiersinger, Werner. Armando Ronca: Architektur der Moderne in Südtirol 1935–1970. Kunst Meran, Kunst, Kofler, Andreas, Schmidt, Magdalene, Stabenow, Jörg, Kofler, Andreas, Martignoni, Massimo. Zürich. ISBN9783038600619. OCLC988179618.
↑Obermair, Hannes. Lavori in Corso—Die Bozner Freiheitsstraße. Fabrizio Miori, Maurizio Pacchiani. Bozen-Bolzano: La Fabbrica del Tempo—Die Zeitfabrik. pp.30–2. ISBN978-88-943205-2-7.
