Attilio Giacomo Muggia (Venice, 2 April 1861 – Bologna, 18 February 1936) was an Italian engineer and architect.

Life and career

Muggia was born in

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...

to a Jewish family. One of his most notable projects was the monumental staircase in the Park of Montagnola, Bologna designed in collaboration with

Tito Azzolini Tito Azzolini (June 1837 in Bologna – December 8, 1907) was an Italian architect, active mostly in or near Bologna. Biography In 1857, he studied architecture and perspective at the Accademia of Fine Arts of Bologna, under Francesco Cocchi. For ...

and inaugurated in 1896. Muggia was a pioneer in Italy of the use of reinforced concrete. In 1900, he designed Villa Gini in Borgo Panigale which was the first civil building in Italy to use reinforced conrete. From 1905 to 1925, he was general technical director of the Società Costruzioni Cementizie with offices in Bologna and Florence. He held the chair of technical architecture at the Bologna engineering school from 1912 to 1935. He died in 1936 and is buried in the Jewish section of

Certosa di Bologna The Certosa di Bologna is a former Carthusian monastery (or charterhouse) in Bologna, northern Italy, which was founded in 1334 and suppressed in 1797. In 1801 it became the city's Monumental Cemetery which would be much praised by Byron and other ...

monumental cemetery in Bologna.

References

1861 births 1936 deaths Engineers from Venice Architects from Venice Venetian Jews {{Italy-engineer-stub