December 12, 1919 - Giancarlo De Carlo
Architecture is Too Important to Leave to the Architects
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| Giancarlo De Carlo . |
He was an Italian architect who was one of
architectural thinkers of his time. He was a part of
generation that entered architecture in a postwar Italian democracy
that shaped his philosophy about life and architecture.
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| University Colleges of Urbino, Italy |
The University Colleges are one of the most famous
and significant projects of Giancarlo De Carlo. Between 1962 and 1983, he built a huge settlement to accommodate about 1100 students not far from the
city, center of the university life. There are many reasons that made
the University Colleges a veritable icon of the 20th Century, and Giancarlo was one of the reasons.
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| University Colleges of Urbino, Italy |
He had a long career as an architect, writer and a teacher. De
Carlo was a self-taught and trained as an architect from 1942 to
1949.
Giancarlo De Carlo was one of the founding members of Team X, a
group of architects challenging the modernist doctrines and a key
figure in the discourse on participation in architecture.
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| University Colleges of Urbino, Italy |
His true legacy is the 2,000 students he taught over half a
century at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and
the Politecnico di Milano, and internationally at Yale and MIT.
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