Gherardo Bosio (19 March 1903 – 16 April 1941) was an Italian architect, engineer and urbanist, famed for his work in planning the centre of Tirana, the capital of Albania.[1]
Biography
Bosio pursued a degree in Engineering in Rome in 1926 and subsequently graduated from the University of Florence School of Architecture in 1931.
After the conquest of Italian East Africa in 1936, Bosio was dispatched by the Italian authorities to Ethiopia, where he prepared the masterplans for the Ethiopian cities of Gondar and Dessie.
Gherardo Bosio died of cancer at the age of 38, on 16 April 1941, at his villa in Montefonti, Florence.
G. Bosio, Future città dell'Impero , in "Architettura", XVI, July 1937, pp. 417–432
TO. Maraini, Gherardo Bosio e la sua opera , in "Illustrazione Toscana e dell'Etruria", 9, September 1941, pp. 18–21
G. Bridges, Ricordo di Gherardo Bosio , in "Stile", July 1941, pp 14–19
G. Carapelli, Gli operatori, in Edilizia in Toscana fra le due guerre , Edifir, Florence 1994, pp 214–215
Gherardo Bosio architetto fiorentino 1903–1941 , edited by C. Cresti, Pontecorboli, Florence 1996
P. Malentacchi, Scheda su Gherardo Bosio in Guida agli archivi di architetti e ingegneri del Novecento in Toscana , edited by E. Insabato, C. Ghelli, pp. 77–83
R. Renzi, Gherardo Bosio. Le Ville , Alinea, Florence 2010
