Gino Levi-Montalcini
| Gino Levi-Montalcini | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Luigi Levi Montalcini 21 April 1902 Milan, Italy |
| Died | 29 November 1974 (aged 72) Turin, Italy |
| Alma mater | Polytechnic University of Turin |
| Spouse(s) | Maria Gattone (m.1943) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Amado Levi Adele Montalcini |
| Relatives |
Rita Levi-Montalcini (sister) Paola Levi-Montalcini (sister) |
Luigi Levi Montalcini, called Gino (April 21, 1902 – November 29, 1974) was an Italian architect and designer.
Luigi Levi was born in Milan to Amado Levi, an engineer from Turin, and Adele Montalcini, a painter. Like his sisters Anna (1905–2000), Rita (1909–2012), a scientist, and Paola (1909–2000), a painter, he took the surname Levi-Montalcini. In Turin he studied at the Liceo Classico Massimo D'Azeglio, and took private courses in drawing and sculpture. He graduated in 1925 from the Royal School of Engineering in Turin (now the Polytechnic University of Turin).
In the 1920s and 30s in Turin, he associated with a wide circle of intellectuals and artists which included architects, painters and art critics, including Giuseppe Pagano, Edoardo Persico, Felice Casorati, Gigi Chessa, Henry Paolucci, Umberto Cuzzi, Domenico Morelli, Mario Passanti, and Carlo Mollino.
His collaboration with Giuseppe Pagano, a classmate who was six years older, marks the beginning of his career as an architect, with projects that place him among the first and most important representatives of the rationalist movement in Italy. The Palazzo Gualino office building they designed for the financier Riccardo Gualino drew an immediate response at the international level. Other projects designed by the two architects were publicized and analyzed by critics, in particular through the pages of Casabella and Domus.
He moved to Milan after the separation from Pagano. Among the most important works of this period is the Colonia elioterapica di Bardonecchia (1936–38). He and his family were affected by the anti-Jewish laws in 1938. After Jews were banned from university posts and the practice of medicine, he helped his sister assemble a secret laboratory in her bedroom at their parents' house in Turin so she could continue her medical research.
In 1943 he married Maria Gattone. In 1944 they had a son Emanuele, and in 1946 a daughter Piera. From 1943 to 1945 he was displaced to Florence, where he was able to escape anti-Jewish persecution under a false name.
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