Giancarlo De Carlo

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Giancarlo De Carlo (1950s)
Facoltà di Magistero, Urbino . Photo by Paolo Monti , 1982.

Giancarlo De Carlo (born December 12, 1919 in Genoa , Italy; † June 4, 2005 in Milan , Italy) was an architect and professor of architecture at the University of Venice . He was one of the most important representatives of post-war architecture in Italy .

Life

The Genoese Giancarlo De Carlo, born in 1919, studied architecture at the IUAV Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and at the Politecnico di Milano . Since 1950 he had his own studio in Milan. De Carlo was a member of CIAM (Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne) and Team X , which also included Jacob Bakema , Peter Smithson and Aldo van Eyck .

De Carlo had been a professor at the University of Venice since the 1950s and was also very active politically as a town planner. In addition to his work as editor of the architecture magazine "Spazio e Societa", he was involved in the "International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design (ILAUD)" and the International Academy of Architecture (IAA) in Sofia.

De Carlo achieved international fame with his student village near Urbino (1962–66), "with which he practically formulated his conception of building as an architecture that adapts to local and social conditions." The campus of the University of Urbino accompanied his work by 1962 to 1983.

With his formal language, which can be counted as Brutalism , he realized further housing estates in the following decades, such as the Matteotti workers' settlement in Terni (1970–75) and the social housing project in Venice-Mazzorbo (1979–1995). In 1978 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

He was an honorary citizen of the city of Urbino (Cittadino Onorario della Città di Urbino), received the Wolf Foundation Prize in 1988 and the Fritz Schumacher Prize in 1990 .

literature

  • Dennis Sharp: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture . Quatro Publishing, New York 1991, ISBN 0-8230-2539-X
  • John McKean: Giancarlo De Carlo: Layered Places . Edition Axel Menges, Fellbach 2004, ISBN 3932565126

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personal data
SURNAME De Carlo, Giancarlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect and architecture professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Genoa
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 2005
Place of death Urbino