Giovanni Rota was born in Vigevano in 1899, he worked extremely hard in his native town on building private and industrial projects, demonstrating an excellent understanding of how to use concrete and a sophisticated personal style.
Giovanni Rota was born in Vigevano in 1899, he graduated in engineering from the Milan Polytechnic in 1922, and later graduated in architecture from the same university in 1934.
From the mid-1920s onwards he worked extremely hard in his native Vigevano on building private and industrial projects, demonstrating an excellent understanding of how to use concrete and a sophisticated personal style.
He was hostile to Fascism and critical of the methods used by the Resistance, so moved to Quito, in Ecuador after the war, where he stayed from 1947 to 1955, building in both the private and the public sector, and lecturing at the Escuela de Arquitectura della Universidad Central.
From 1955 to 1957 he moved to Cali in Colombia, before returning to Vigevano in 1957, where he worked on some important projects before retiring in 1962. He died in Rome in 1969.
Rota never enjoyed life in the limelight and could hardly be called mainstream, which was exactly why he developed in such as individual fashion, complicating the cannon of what we conventionally label modern architecture.