Oscar Prati

Oscar Prati was an architect from Modena, who worked in the Brescia area in the 1930s to 1950s. There, he was commissioned to design a new urban plan for the town, whose most important outcome was the creation of the Piazza Vittoria. His son Giuliano was inspired by his designs and became a well-known painter. During the Fascist era in Italy, Prati was one of the preferred architects of the Mussolini regime. Already Oscar’s father Arturo (1871-1944) was an architect and worked as teacher of ornate design and architecture at the University of Modena from 1910 to 1927.

Oscar Prati’s entry was his contribution for a national competition organized in January 1926 by an Italian magazine for the project of a vast sports complex at Acqua Acetosa in Roma, called Terme Littorie. The first prize went to the Venetian architect Duilio Torres, who also submitted his design in Amsterdam 1928, and the second to Oscar Prati. The project, however, was never realized.