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Augusto Cavallari Murat
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was born in Chiavenna (Sondrio) on 3rd August 1911. Cavallari Murat graduated in Civil Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino in 1934 and started a university career, following the teachings by professor
Giuseppe Albenga.
From 1936 Cavallari Murat was a member of the Deputation for the countryhome History.
For his cultural education, it was relevant the co-operation with professor Eligio Perucca in the edition of the Dizionario degli Ingegneri (Dictionary of Engineers). |
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In particular, Murat looked after issues related to architecture, building and urbanistics.
In 1936 he was a volunteer assistant and four years later he was full assistant in wood, iron and reinforced concrete constructions. |
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In 1951 Murat achieved the universty teaching qualification in this subject. At the Politecnico di Torino, Murat made a deep didactical activity: he taught Technical Architecture I and II (from 1950-51 to 1958-59), wood, iron and reinforced concrete Costructions (1953-54 and 54-55), Architecture and Architectonic Composition (from 1956).
Contemporaneously, Murat taught also at the Application School of Engineers in Turin (1947-1958).
In 1958 Murat won the chair of the Technical Architecture and became a temporary lecturer at the University of Cagliari. Later on, the professor moved to Padova.
He came back to the Politecnico di Torino at the end of 1961 and was a full professor since 1962. At this university he settled the Institute of Technical Architecture, of which he became a director.
In 1964 he was also called to contribute at the organisation of the faculty of the National Architecture of Iran in Teheran. In Turin he taught, as a full professor, Technical Architecture, Architectonic Documentation, Architecture and Architectonic Composition, up to 1976, when he left the University without leaving his researches.
In particular, Murat's ideas in the didactical field showed to be far-sighted; he aimed at supplying the designer engineer with a set of inter-disciplinary notions and methods, from urbanistics to the history of architecture. This cultural setting was later acknowledged by recent directives of EEC, now imposing to building designers a curriculum of study of this type.
Cavallari Murat died in Turin on 3rd March 1989.
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