Giuseppe Davanzo Biography
Giuseppe Davanzo was born in 1921 in Ponte di Piave (TV), and in 1934 he moved to Treviso. In 1941 he enrolled at the Royal University Institute of Architecture in Venice, but was called up to arms only a month later. After being a prisoner, he returned from Germany only in 1945. He resumed his studies and graduated in 1953. His education was strongly influenced by his teachers Carlo Scarpa, Franco Albini and Giuseppe Samonà. He began his career as a freelancer, specializing mainly in design and construction management. His favorite areas of interest include the construction of single-family and collective residences, social, cultural and recreational services, school and industrial buildings, entertainment, sports and tertiary buildings, as well as restoration. His commitment to urban design, industrial design and exhibition design is noteworthy. He was awarded several times, in 1967, 1969 and 1970, with the In/Arch prize, and in 1997 he also received the Oderzo prize. Many of his most representative works are found in Veneto, such as the Foro Boario in Padua, the Palazzetto dello Sport and the Fiera in Vicenza, the retirement home in Castelfranco Veneto and the studio for the sculptor Augusto Murer in Falcade. In addition to his professional activity, he also had a career in teaching: from 1962 to 1973 he was Carlo Scarpa's assistant, and subsequently held courses in Venice on building unification and prefabrication, interior architecture, as well as other courses in the Degree Course short in Industrial Design in Treviso. He was also a photographer, winning the prize awarded by the International Editorial Forum in 1981. In the last years of his career he wrote short stories and detective stories. He died in Treviso in 2007.
