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Valle, Gino
(b Udine, 7 Dec 1923). Italian architect and designer. He graduated from the Istituto Universitario di Architettura in Venice (1948) and then studied urban planning at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (1951–2). After his studies he joined his father Provino Valle and sister Nani Valle in practice in Udine; until the end of the 1950s his first works, mostly private houses and office buildings in the Friuli area, were signed also by his father and his sister. In works such as the combined housing and office building (1955–7) in Trieste, the Via Marinoni flats (1958–60) in Udine and even in the emotive poetry of the Monument to the Resistance (1959; executed 1967–9) in Udine, he gradually developed a vocabulary based upon the formal possibilities of constructional expression. It brought him international recognition in the offices (1959–61) for the Zanussi Rex factory at Porcia, Pordenone. Constructional form and function are expressed on the face of the building, which also demonstrates clearly his affinity with the Friuli landscape, in which much of his work is executed. The best-known of his industrial buildings include the Dapres factory (1973–4) at Portogruaro, Venice, and the Fantoni offices (1973–9) at Osoppo, Udine.
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