Gherardo Bosio


Gherardo Bosio was an Italian architect, engineer and urbanist, famed for his work in planning the centre of Tirana, the capital of Albania.

Biography

Bosio pursued a degree in Engineering in Rome in 1926 and subsequently graduated from the University of Florence School of Architecture in 1931.
After the conquest of Italian East Africa in 1936, Bosio was dispatched by the Italian authorities to Ethiopia, where he prepared the masterplans for the Ethiopian cities of Gondar and Dessie.
Gherardo Bosio died of cancer at the age of 38, on 16 April 1941, at his villa in Montefonti, Florence.
, built by Bosio in Rationalist style
, built by Bosio in Rationalist style

Summary of works