Armando Ronca (13 September 1901 – 19 March 1970) was an Italian architect who has executed numerous buildings and interior designs, mainly in South Tyrol, Trentino and Milan.
Life Armando Ronca studied engineering in Genoa, Turin and Padua. In the mid-1930s, Ronca moved to South Tyrol, and influenced significantly the architecture of Bolzano and Merano until well into the 1960s.
Selected projects
1935: Villa Cembran, Merano 1938–40: Palazzo del Turismo (Cinema Corso), Bolzano (demolished 1988) 1952: Rainerum Institute, Bolzano 1955: Extension of the "San Siro" football stadium, Milan 1959: Eurotel hotel complex, Merano 1964: INA-Casa residential complex, Bolzano 1970: Pius X church, Bolzano
Exhibitions 2017: Armando Ronca, Architektur der Moderne in Südtirol, 1935–1970, Kunst Meran / Merano Arte, Merano
Bibliography Flavio Schimenti. Armando Ronca. Memorie di Architettura a Bolzano e in Alto Adige, 1929–1969, Praxis 3, Bolzano 1999 Kunst Meran, Andreas Kofler, Magdalene Schmidt, Jörg Stabenow (eds). Armando Ronca: Architektur der Moderne in Südtirol, 1935–1970, Zürich 2017 Roman Hollenstein: "Mailand in den Alpen". In Neue Zürcher Zeitung, November 21, 2017, p. 36.
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