Farewell to Adolfo Natalini, the architect who founded Superstudio

Architect Adolfo Natalini, one of the most important Italian names in contemporary architecture, left us yesterday in Florence. Born in Pistoia in 1941, he graduated from Florence in 1966, and in the same year founded, together with Cristiano Toraldo di Francia and then Roberto Magris, Alessandro Magris, Gianpiero Frassinelli and Alessandro Poli, the Superstudio, the celebrated architectural firm that carried forward (also with international success) the ideas ofradical architecture, of which Natalini was among the leading Italian exponents.

Natalini’s projects all over the world were many: the futuristic pavilion for the Römerberg in Frankfurt in 1979, the project for the access to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem in 1982, and then again the Saalgasse house in Frankfurt, the Boscotondo in Helmond in Holland, the renovation of the Museum of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, the “I Gigli” shopping center in Florence, and the Teatro della Compagnia in Florence. His most recent interventions had involved a number of important Tuscan museums: the new west staircase at the Uffizi Gallery, the recovery plan for Livorno’s Bottini dell’Olio, which is now home to the Museo della Città, and the refurbishment of the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo in Pisa, his most recent work, carried out in collaboration with the Guicciardini & Magni firm.

Natalini was also a full professor at the Faculty of Architecture in Florence, as well as an academician at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence, the Accademia di Belle Arti in Carrara and the Accademia di San Luca, and an honorary member of Bda (Bund Deutscher Architekten) and Faia (Honorary Fellow American Institute of Architects).

Farewell to Adolfo Natalini, the architect who founded Superstudio

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