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Marcello Piacentini

1881 - 1960

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Marcello Piacentini (8 December 1881 – 19 May 1960) was an Italian urban theorist and one of the main proponents of Italian Fascist architecture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcello Piacentini has received more than 114,276 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Marcello Piacentini is the 324th most popular architect (down from 298th in 2019), the 2,964th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,719th in 2019) and the 50th most popular Italian Architect.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Marcello Piacentini ranks 324 out of 518. Before him are Carl Humann, Steven Holl, Mammad Hasan Hajinski, Yvonne Farrell, B. V. Doshi, and Michael Graves. After him are Gordon Bunshaft, Louis Visconti, Heinrich Tessenow, José Benito de Churriguera, Anca Petrescu, and Władysław Horodecki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Marcello Piacentini ranks 124. Before him are Henri Le Fauconnier, Vilhelm Buhl, Curt Haase, Karl Staaf, Móric Esterházy, and Zhang Zongchang. After him are Rudolf Ramek, Daniel Jones, Princess Dorothea of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Ludwik Rajchman, Gaston Gallimard, and Max Weber. Among people deceased in 1960, Marcello Piacentini ranks 114. Before him are Hisamuddin of Selangor, Semyon Lavochkin, Pavel Peter Gojdič, Móric Esterházy, Massimo Bontempelli, and Zora Neale Hurston. After him are Auguste Herbin, Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, Antal Szalay, Roy Chapman Andrews, Ioannis Georgiadis, and Walter Noddack.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Marcello Piacentini ranks 2,964 out of 5,161. Before him are Anaxilas (-500), Maria Grazia Cucinotta (1968), Edoardo Amaldi (1908), Carlo Rosselli (1899), Margherita Maria Farnese (1664), and Ugo Frigerio (1901). After him are Stephan El Shaarawy (1992), Mario Camerini (1895), Giovanna Amati (1959), Nicola Cabibbo (1935), Giuseppe Volpi (1877), and Giancarlo de' Medici (1611).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Italy

Among architects born in Italy, Marcello Piacentini ranks 50. Before him are Galeazzo Alessi (1512), Camillo Boito (1836), Bruno Zevi (1918), Carlo Rossi (1775), Giovanni da Udine (1487), and Mauro Codussi (1440). After him are Louis Visconti (1791), Benedetto Antelami (1150), Antonio Rinaldi (1709), Giuseppe Valadier (1762), Francesco Sabatini (1721), and Mario Bellini (1935).

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