Laudatio Ezio Bortolussi: from Suitcase to Skyscrapers

Abstract

Ezio Bortolussi’s personal and professional life is closely intertwined with the migratory phenomena that affected Friuli in the post-war period and the impetuous development of large buildings in the urban areas of North America. This laudation retraces some of the significant moments of Bortolussi’s professional history, culminating in his final success as a superlative interpreter of the engineering of reinforced concrete skyscrapers.