Ernesto Nathan Rogers
Ernesto Nathan Rogers · Arts & Literature
Architect of the Torre Velasca and editor of Casabella, co-founder of the BBPR studio, barred by the racial laws of 1938 and son of a father murdered at Auschwitz
16 mars 1909, Trieste, Autriche-Hongrie (Italie) — 7 novembre 1969, Gardone Riviera, Italie
Trieste, Milan
Ernesto Nathan Rogers is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Architect of the Torre Velasca and editor of Casabella, co-founder of the BBPR studio, barred by the racial laws of 1938 and son of a father murdered at Auschwitz
Origins and early life
Ernesto Nathan Rogers was born in Trieste on 16 March 1909 to Jewish parents: his father, Romeo Rogers, an employee of the insurance company Assicurazioni Generali, of a family of English origin, was deported and died at Auschwitz in 1944, and his mother, Ida Manni, of the Jewish religion, died in Trieste in 1943; the family tomb stands beside the Jewish cemetery of the city. He graduated from the Milan Polytechnic in 1932 and in the same year founded, with Gian Luigi Banfi, Lodovico Belgiojoso and Enrico Peressutti, the studio BBPR, one of the workshops of Italian rationalism.
Work and career
The racial laws of 1938 forbade him to sign his own work, and in 1943 he fled to Switzerland; Banfi, arrested for resistance, died at Mauthausen, and the first work of the reunited studio in 1946 was the Monument to the Dead in the German Camps in Milan's Monumental Cemetery, a cube of steel tubing around an urn of earth from the camps. Rogers became the conscience of post-war Italian architecture: editor of Domus and then, from 1953 to 1965, of Casabella-Continuità, where he argued that modern building must grow from the history and the 'pre-existing environment' of its place, and teacher at the Polytechnic of a generation that included Aldo Rossi and Gae Aulenti.
Later years
The Torre Velasca, the BBPR tower of 1958 whose overhanging crown recalls the medieval towers of Lombardy in reinforced concrete, is his manifesto in stone, and the museums of the Castello Sforzesco his most loved work; he died at Gardone Riviera on 7 November 1969. The British architect Richard Rogers was his cousin.
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Architect of the Torre Velasca and editor of Casabella, co-founder of the BBPR studio, barred by the racial laws of 1938 and son of a father murdered at Auschwitz
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Nathan_Rogers
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