Umberto Tombari

Umberto Tombari (26 August 1900 – 12 January 1984) was an Italian civil engineer and architect active mainly in his native Tuscany. He played a key role in the urban development of Grosseto from the 1920s to the 1960s, designing residential, civic, and public buildings.

Tombari's early work showed an eclectic style with neoclassical references, which gradually evolved in the 1930s towards the monumental forms of Fascist architecture, reflecting the regime's stylistic preferences. In the later 1930s and postwar period, he adopted a more restrained rationalist approach.