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Armando Melis de Villa
Architect, born in Iglesias (Cagliari) on 22nd May 1889 and dead in Turin on 27th April 1961.
Melis de Villa was appointed as temporary professor of Distributive Characters of Buildings at the faculty of Architecture of Turin in 1954 and in 1957 he became a full professor.
His rich architectonic production in Turin ranges from the restaurant of the Alleanza Cooperativa at the Exhibition of 1928, the House Koelliker to Roveri's, up to the house of corso Re Umberto I. As far as his architectonic production in Piedmont is concerned, we can mention the hut at the Gran Paradiso mountain and the new judicial prison in Novara.
In 1932 Melis de Villa participated to the architecture competition Falck, proposing a project for a large store of sale with a metal structure.
In the post-war term, Melis de Villa's advisory was required for rebuilding the station Porta Nuova.
He won the competition of the head office in the new Politecnico at the Valentino and at the children's hospital Koelliker.
In urbanistic field, he was appointed as full member of the National Institute of Urbanistics, drew up the Regulatory Plan of Verbania. In Turin he cared for requalifying the second tract of via Rome, with the aid of architects Dezzutti, Molli-Boffa, Morelli, De Rege and Bardelli.
Melis de Villa had been the director of the magazines "Architettura italiana" (Italian Architecture) for twenty years and "Urbanistica" (Urbanistics) from 1932 to 1944.
On 1st November he was considered as temporary teacher due to limits of age.
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