page_title: Eugenio Soncini
section_title: The fifties and sixties
hierarchical_section_title: Eugenio Soncini / Biography / The fifties and sixties
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Milano, edificio per uffici in via Fabio Filzi 25 (angolo via Giovanni Battista Pirelli), già noto come "palazzo Galbani".
context_page_description: Eugenio Soncini was an Italian architect.
context_section_description: An exuberant and strong-willed personality, towards the end of the war, Eugenio began to find the partnership with Ponti restrictive. So, when in 1947 his brother Ermenegildo graduated in architecture, he took the opportunity to leave Ponti and open an independent studio: the "Studio Eugenio and Ermenegildo Soncini" in the Palazzina Sessa in via Ariosto 1 in Milano.  After World War II, he followed his own interests, concentrating on the office and hospital building sectors. His architectural production mainly concerned the Milanese area, with a significant amount of office buildings, clinics and educational institutions. Among the most significant ones: the Torre Breda (originally known as Grattacielo di Milano), the La Madonnina and Capitanio Clinics, the office buildings of Michelin,  Galbani  and Milano Assicurazioni, the Torre Tirrena and the Palazzo La Serenissima/Campari. Besides working with his brother Ermenegildo, he collaborated with Luigi Mattioni, Pier Luigi Nervi and Giuseppe Pestalozza.
  Due to this long activity, he was described as an "exponent of Rationalism, in a version that was first classicist and then rigorously technological.". The professional activity of Eugenio and his studio concluded in 1973. He died in 1993
  Its archive was donated by the heirs to CASVA (Centro Alti Studi sulle Arti Visive, Milan) in 2017, in order to preserve it and make it freely available to the public.
caption: The Palazzo della Galbani, in via Fabio Filzi, Milan
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