Graziano Gasparini


Graziano Gasparini was a Venezuelan architect and architectural historian, sometimes referred to as Graciano Gasparini.
Gasparini was born in Gorizia, on the Italian–Slovenian border, in 1924. After completing his education in Venice, he worked for Carlo Scarpa in connection with the Biennale. After a break caused by the Second World War, the famous exhibition resumed in 1948, and Gasparini first visited Venezuela that year while promoting it. He settled there and pursued a career as an architect.
He specialised in restoring Spanish Colonial architecture, while pursuing a parallel career as an architectural historian. The buildings he worked on include the Bolivarian Museum in Caracas, which was inaugurated in 1960.
His scholarship was recognised by the award of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987.

Personal life

Gasparini's first wife was the sociologist Olga Lagrange.
Some of his publications were written jointly with his second wife, the anthropologist Luise Margolies. He died in Caracas, aged 95.