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Carlo Ceppi
Hydraulic engineer and civil architect, was born on 11th October 1829 and died on 9th November 1921 in Turin. Ceppi took the position held by
Carlo Promis as a temporary lecturer of Architecture within the Application School for Engineers, keeping the chair for the only academic year 1869-1870.
In 1857 Ceppi was appointed as deputy professor at the Military Academy.
Two years later Ceppi looked after implementing some sacred furnishing, among which the pulpit and the confessional box of the Bauritian Abbey. As far as his interests for holy buildings are concerned, we should remember the intervention for arranging the pronaos of the Sacramentine Church (1874), designed in 1843 by D. Dupuy.
In 1893 Ceppi became titular professor of the chair of Architecture at the faculty of Architecture. The professor mainly devoted to the drawing.
He participated at the competition for the facade of S. Maria del Fiore in Florence, bid in 1861 and ended in 1863. Even though Ceppi arrived first at level of merits, the design was then performed by the architect Fabris.
His first architectonic production in Turin is relevant. We remember the design for the railway station of Porta Nuova (1863-1866), in co-operation with A. Mazzucchelli, the decorating design of the church of San Carlo, Ceriana place, then Peyron, in Solferino square and other buildings for civil living. Still in Turin, Ceppi performed the crowning of Carignano palace in memory of Vittorio Emanuele II and the burial stone next to the Royal Palace in Castello square. Within the politics of rehealthing the town of Turin, Ceppi cared for the urban design of the plot for the new Diagonal road, now via Pietro Micca, between Solferino and Castello squares.
For the general Italian Exhibition of 1898 in Turin, Ceppi designed in co-operation with G. Salvadori and C. Gilodi, 3-wheeled pavilions for the sacred art and missions as well as the heliptical entrance and door.
In 1900, always with the same co-operators, Ceppi designed a pavilion for the Universal Exhibition of Paris.
Ceppi was also a municipal counsellor in Turin.
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