La comunità italiana e la Dante Alighieri ricordano l’Architetto Enrico Taglietti deceduto recentemente in Canberra all’età di 93 anni.

Nato a Milano nel 1926, si era laureato in Architettura al Politecnico di quella città nel 1953.

Dopo alcune esperienze professionali in giro per l’Europa, era arrivato in Australia nel 1955 e dal 1956 risiedeva a Canberra, dove aveva iniziato una lunga e fertile carriera di Architetto di edifici pubblici e privati.

Particolarmente apprezzato per l’uso magistrale del cemento per creare forme e strutture straordinarie, per noi italiani, l’opera più importante e significativa resta l’Ambasciata Italiana a Canberra, costruita in cemento e con molti pannelli in legno che creano una struttura molto dinamica e inaugurata nel 1974.

Accanto ad essa sono poi innumerevoli le opere costruite nella nostra città e non solo, sia abitazioni civili che edifici pubblici. Ricordiamo McKeown House, Dickson Library, Dickson Health Care Centre,  Woden Youth Centre, Church of St Antony a Sydney, Giralang Primary School and Preschool, Australian War Memorial Repository, Forrest Early Childhood, Apostolic Nunciature, St Kilda Library in Melbourne e tante altre.

La Società Dante Alighieri lo ricorda in maniera particolare, con stima e riconoscenza, in quanto Enrico Taglietti è stato nel 1957 tra i suoi Soci fondatori, divenendo subito Segretario del primo Comitato Direttivo e poi, nel1968, ne divenne Presidente.

La nostra Società, nel ricordare la grande figura dell’Architetto Taglietti, porge le più sentite condoglianze alle figlie Tabitha and Tanja.

Luigi Catizone

In memory of the architect Enrico Taglietti

Translation from Italian provided by Julie Docker

Italian Embassy in Canberra

The Italian Community and the Dante Alighieri Society would like to commemorate the passing of Mr Enrico Taglietti, the famous architect of Italian origin, who died recently in Canberra at the age of 93.

Mr Enrico Taglietti was born in Milan, and he graduated in Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, in 1953.

After gaining professional experience in Europe, he arrived in Australia in 1955, and in 1956 he made the decision to reside in Canberra, where he began a long rich career as architect of both public buildings and private homes.

Mr Taglietti became particularly known and admired for his masterly use of cement through which he created the most extraordinary shapes and structures. For us Italians, however, his most important and significant work must remain the Embassy of Italy, it too constructed in cement with wooden paneling, the resulting edifice ringing with power and dynamism. It was opened in 1974.

In addition to the Embassy, he was responsible for many public and private  buildings in Canberra and elsewhere. We recall McKeown House, Dickson Library, Dickson Health Care Centre, Woden Youth Centre, Church of St Antony in Sydney, Giralang Primary School and Preschool, Australian War Memorial Repository, Forrest Early Childhood, Apostolic Nunciature, St Kilda Library in Melbourne, and so many others.

The Dante Alighieri Society holds the architect in special memory, for Mr Taglietti in 1957 became one of its founding members; he became secretary of its first Executive Committee, a position he maintained for many years, up until 1968, when he became President.

Our Society, in remembrance of the great figure of Architetto Enrico Taglietti, offers our most heartfelt condolences to his two daughters, Tabitha and Tanja.

Luigi Catizone