Poste Centrali - Rovigo - architetto Roberto Narducci

Roberto Narducci (14 August 1887 – 10 February 1979) was an Italian architect and engineer of the

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and Novocento movements.

Life

Narducci was born in Rome, into a middle-class family. After receiving his technical 'licenzia' in 1903–04, he obtained a diploma in architectural decoration from the Arts and Industry Museum of Rome in 1909. In the same year he won a competition to become a designer for the Italian state railway company,

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. From 1920-21 he enrolled in the three-year program at the Regia Scuola Superiori di Architettura, and from there he received his

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in 1923. In 1930 passed the qualification examination to become a practicing professional

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the l ...

. In his lifetime, working under the

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(now within the

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) he designed approximately 40

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in Track (rail transport), tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the ...

s, both new buildings and

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reconstructions and about ten Post Offices. He frequently worked with his colleague

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. He died in Rome, aged 91.

Structures

;Buildings * Palazzo delle Poste e Telegrafi di Bari, 193
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, 1927-1930 ;Railway stations *

Albenga railway station Albenga ( lij, Arbenga; la, Albingaunum) is a city and ''comune'' situated on the Gulf of Genoa on the Italian Riviera in the Province of Savona in Liguria, northern Italy. Albenga has the nickname of ''city of a hundred spires''. The economy is ...

, 1930 * Battipaglia railway station, 1930 *

Levanto railway station Levanto may refer to the following places: *Levanto, Liguria, a ''comune'' in the Province of La Spezia, Italy *Levanto District Levanto is a district of the province of Chachapoyas. History It was one of the principal centers in the province ...

Loano railway station Loano ( lij, Leua) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Savona in the Italian region Liguria, located about southwest of Genoa and about southwest of Savona. Loano borders the following municipalities: Bardineto, Boissano, Borg ...

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railway station, 1932 *

Redipuglia railway station Fogliano Redipuglia ( Bisiacco: ; fur, Foian Redipulie; sl, Foljan-Sredipolje, german: Radepollach) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste and about southwest of Gorizia ...

, 1936 *

Roma Ostiense railway station Roma Ostiense is a railway station in Piazza dei Partigiani serving the Ostiense district of Rome, Italy, a short distance from the Porta San Paolo. It is run by the Rete Ferroviaria Italiana arm of the Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane group and th ...

, 1940 *

Ventimiglia railway station Ventimiglia railway station ( it, Stazione di Ventimiglia) is the main station in the Italian town of Ventimiglia. It is at the end of three rail routes: the Genoa–Ventimiglia line, the Cuneo–Ventimiglia line and the Marseille–Ventimigl ...

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Viareggio railway station Viareggio railway station ( it, Stazione di Viareggio) serves the city and ''comune'' of Viareggio, in the region of Tuscany, central Italy. Opened in 1936, it forms part of the Pisa–La Spezia–Genoa railway, and is also a junction for a re ...

Bibliography

*M. Giacomelli, ''Roberto Narducci (1887-1979) architetto-ingegnere del Ministero delle Comunicazioni''. E. Godoli e A. I. Lima, a cura di. ''Architettura ferroviaria in Italia Novecento''. Dario Flaccovio Editore, 2004, *A. Morgera, ''Roberto Narducci e la monumentalizzazione delle stazioni ferroviarie. I casi di Venezia Santa Lucia, Redipuglia e Roma Ostiense. 1934-1938'', tesi di laurea, Trieste 2006, relatore P. Nicoloso, correlatore B. Boccazzi Mazza. *A. Morgera (ed.),
La stazione di Redipuglia di Roberto Narducci
', exhibition catalogue for
Sentieri di Pace

Pro Loco di Fogliano Redipuglia
Fogliano Redipuglia 2007.

References

External links

Fascismo - Architettura - Arte / Arte fascista web site {{DEFAULTSORT:Narducci, Roberto 1887 births 1979 deaths Architects from Rome 20th-century Italian architects Italian fascist architecture Engineers from Rome 20th-century Italian engineers