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Vale Enrico Taglietti 16 April 1926 — 3 May 2019

Born and educated in Milan, Enrico Taglietti would bring a European sophistication and sensibility to Canberra.

As a student at the Politecnico di Milano, his teachers included design luminaries Gio Ponti, Bruno Zevi and Pier Luigi Nervi. On graduation in 1953, he commenced his career as an architectural consultant, participating with Carlo di Carli on the inventive Sant’Erasmo theatre, and undertaking various residential and commercial developments in

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