Armando Bernabiti

Born in Crevalcore, Bernabiti studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and began working as an architect in Paris and Rome.

[citation needed] He designed public and private buildings in a mostly Rationalist style, though with strong influence from local vernacular architecture.

The design aimed to restore of the original character of the buildings with cues from Italian architecture to make it feel familiar to visitors.

[3] In 1937, Bernabiti designed the National Theatre of Rhodes (previously Teatro Giacomo Puccini) in the International Style with glass brick masonry.

[6] It is designed in an eclectic style, blending the modernism with oriental details, to feature a prominent circular hall with arched window doors and numerous lozenge-form skylights.