Roberto Narducci was an Italian architect and engineer of the Modernist

Modern architecture

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 and Novocento

Novecento Italiano

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 movements.

Life

Narducci was born in Rome on August 14, 1887 into a middle class family. After receiving his technical 'licenzia' in 1903-04, he obtained a diploma in architectural decoration from the Arts and Industry Museum of Rome in 1909. In the same year he won a competition to become a designer for the Italian state railway company, Ferrovie dello Stato

Ferrovie dello Stato

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From 1920-21 he enrolled in the three year program at the Regia Scuola Superiori di Architettura, and from there he received his degree

Academic degree

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 in Civil Architecture in 1923. In 1930 passed the qualification examination to become a practicing professional engineer

Engineer

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In his lifetime, working under the Ministry of Communications

Ministry of Communications (Italy)

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 (now within the Ministry of Transport) he designed approximately 40 railway stations, both new buildings and post-war

Post-war

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 reconstructions and about ten Post Offices. He frequently worked with his colleague Angiolo Mazzoni

Angiolo Mazzoni

Angiolo Mazzoni was a prolific state architect and engineer of the Italian Fascist government of the 1920s and 1930s.Mazzoni designed hundreds of public buildings, post offices and train stations during the Interwar period in Italy...

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Structures

Buildings

• Palazzo delle Poste e Telegrafi di Bari, 1931 plan
• Palazzo delle Poste e Telegrafi di Rovigo, 1927-1930

Railway stations

• Albenga railway station, 1930
• Battipaglia railway station, 1930
• Levanto railway station
• Loano railway station plan
• Santa Flavia
  Santa Flavia
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   railway station, 1932
• Redipuglia railway station, 1936
• Roma Ostiense railway station
  Roma Ostiense railway station
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  , 1940
• Ventimiglia railway station
  Ventimiglia railway station
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• Verona Porta Nuova railway station
• Viareggio railway station
  Viareggio railway station
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