Graziano Gasparini

Graziano Gasparini (31 July 1924 – 30 November 2019) was a Venezuelan architect, photographer, painter and historian,^[1] sometimes referred to as Graciano Gasparini (ie using a Spanish version of his first name).

Gasparini was born in

and pursued a career as an architect. He specialised in restoring Spanish Colonial architecture, while developing a parallel career as an architectural historian.^[3] The buildings he worked on include the Bolivarian Museum in Caracas, which was inaugurated in 1960.

His scholarship was recognised by the award of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987.^[4]

He died in Caracas, aged 95.

Personal life

Marriages

Gasparini's first wife was the Venezuelan sociologist Olga Lagrange, who died in 1971.

Some of his publications were written jointly with his second wife, the american anthropologist Luise Margolies.

Brother

His brother Paolo Gasparini (1934, Gorizia, Italy) was trained as a photographer within the Italian neorealist current, at the beginning of the fifties. In 1955 he settled in Venezuela.^[5]

Bibliography

Beginning with a survey of Spanish Colonial churches in Venezuela (Templos coloniales de Venezuela. Caracas, 1959), he published on a variety of topics related to Latin American architecture, including

and indigenous traditions. Caracas a través de su arquitectura remains the only compendium on the history of architecture of Venezuela's capital.

• Templos coloniales de Venezuela. Graziano Gasparini. 1959
• Caracas a través de su Arquitectura. Graziano Gasparini and Juan Pedro Posani (1969)
• Inca Architecture. Graziano Gasparini and Luise Margolies. (English translation 1980)^[6]
• Las fortificaciones del período hispánico en Venezuela. Graziano Gasparini (1985)
• Arquitectura colonial iberoamericana. Graziano Gasparini, editor (1997)
• Arquitectura Indigena de Venezuela. Graziano Gasparini and Luise Margolies (2005). An excerpt La Vivienda Colectiva de los Yanomami appears in "Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America": Vol. 2: Iss. 2, Article 1.

References

External links

• interview Registro Nacional Voz de los Creadores. 2004.