Marcello D'Olivo architetto

Marcello D'Olivo (Udine, 1921-1991), a famous architect, talented painter and versatile intellectual is the theoretician of the construction of a “new city” able to bridge the gap between architecture and nature. An absolutely original interpret of Le Corbusier's and Wright's teachings, D'Olivo is not only the father of “circus”, a great circular building, and of the well-known “spiral-shaped plant” of Lignano Pineta, but he is also the author of works realized in various foreign nations like Jordan, Australia, Congo and Saudi Arabia.

This book presents the reader a wide anthology of the architectural works realized by Marcello D'Olivo between 1947 and 1991. Photographs, drawings and plastic models narrate the indefatigable activity of urbanistic and architectural design of a “genial mind” who has created many works of historical value. Among them there are the town-planning of Libreville, capital of Gabon (started in 1965) and the Memorial to the Unknown Soldiers in Baghdad, of which the architect was charged by Saddam Hussein in 1979.