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Aldo Cardelli, AIAN. C. ARCHITECT TO RECEIVENATIONAL AIA AWARDAldo Cardelli, AlA, of New Bern, and four otherItalian architects will be honored by the AmericanInstitute of Architects for their moving monumentto a savage event the World War ll Fosse Ardeatine-massacre,As ltaly welcomed the advancing Allied liberatorsin 1944, the Roman underground killed 33 marchingNazi Storm Troopers with a hurled bomb.The German command, on Marcn 22, herded 330Romans some of them boys and some innocentparties picked-off the street into an abandoned-quarry and shot them. With dynamite, the Nazissealed the tomb. But, a shepherd discovered thehiding place of the victims' skeletons.One of the first design competitions in post-warItaly was for a fitting memorial to the reprisal victims.In 1950, the unique mausoleum by architectsNello Aprile, Gino Calcaprina, Aldo Cardelli, AlA,Mario Fiorentino, and Giuseppe Perugini was completed.Sculptors were Francesco Coccia andMirko Basaldella.Located off the historic Via Ardeatine in an area-of ancient Roman burials the memorial was designedto leave the scene of the murders-intact.A concrete slab which appears to float on air-but is supported by three columns rides over-the 330 tombs, covered with granite from the Dolomites.Outside the tomb, bronze gates, designedby M. Basaldella, have lines suggesting barbedwire and bones. "The combination of caves andthe graves . . . gives an imaginative and dramaticcomposition," said the AIA Institute Honors Committee,which recommended the Henry Bacon Medalfor Memorial Architecture.The medal wilt be presented at the AIA Convention24 NoFrrH cAFrctLtNA AncHlrEcrin Chicago, June 23, as part of the Institute'sawards program.Aprile, Fiorentino, and Perugini still practice inRome. Sculptor Basaldella is now director of thedesign workshops of Harvard University's CarpenterCenter for the Visual Arts.Cardelli, who was part of the Partisan undergroundmovement that fought the Nazis, came to this countryin 1947 and obtained his Master of Architecturedegree f rom the University of Pennsylvania in 1948.He has been associated with Robert H. Stephens,AlA, in the practice of Architecture in New Bernsince 1951 . He stated that the architects realizedonly small financial gain out of the memorial designcompetition. "But we were happy when theproject developed as we had conceived it, andthat it has lasted as a worthy reminder."L. to R.: Vick, Austin, Kunkle, Brown, Calloway, Ellis andBurns, head of the Department of Architecture.NCSU STUDENTS WIN CASH AWARDSFive architectural students at N. C. State University,School of Design, have received cash awardsin the Architectural Student Steel Design Competition.Sponsors of the competition were the Americanlron and Steel Institute and the American Instituteof Steel Construction. Students were asked todesign an earthquake relief housing system insteel.R. Gene Ellis, regional engineer for the AmericanInstitute of Steel Construction, presented the cashawards to the students. The awards were' $150'first; $100, second; and $50, third. First prize wasdivided between Thomas D. CallowdY, Jr., fourthyear, and Thomas R. Brown, fifth year; secondprize was divided between James M. Kunkle, fourthyear, and Cloyd M. Austin, fifth year; third prizewent to Walter T. Vick lll, fourth year student.