Giancarlo De Carlo

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Giancarlo De Carlo (12 December 1919 − 4 June 2005) was an Italian architect.^[1]

Biography

Giancarlo De Carlo was born in

In 1948, De Carlo resumed his studies at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (Università Iuav di Venezia) where he received his degree in architecture August 1, 1949.^[2][3] In 1950, he opened his own studio in Milan. In 1951, he organized an exhibition on spontaneous architecture and, three years later, presented three short films written with Elio Vittorini in which he denounced the drift towards a modern metropolis run by bureaucrats and technicians, in whom the interest in men is not a priority, and urged the spectator to act personally.

In 1955, De Carlo obtained a professorship in

In 1964, De Carlo led the first General Town Plan of the city of Urbino. From 1965 onward, he led the design process of the campus and facilities of the new University of Urbino. The campus is designed to merge with the existing hilly landscape. De Carlo's work on the University of Urbino campus design brought him international recognition. During the 1968 movement in Italy, he sought a constructive dialogue with his students and published a series of texts and essays in which he theorized a more democratic and open "participatory architecture".^{[citation needed]}

CIAM ideals with the late twentieth-century reality.^[4]

Although his political beliefs limited his portfolio of buildings, his ideas remained. From 1970 onward, he built houses for workers in Terni, together with the workers and their families. This was the first example of participatory architecture in Italy; it was successful and was repeated with different results and procedures: in 1972 for the Rimini City Plan, and in 1979 for the recovery of Mazzorbo Island in Venice.

In 1976, De Carlo founded the ILAUD (International Laboratory of Architecture & Urban Design), based on the principles of Team 10, which took place every summer in Italy for 27 years, engaging in continuous research in the evolution of architecture. In 1978, he founded and directed the magazine Space and Society to maintain the Team 10 network and guarantee an alternative and independent voice in the European architectural sphere for the next 20 years.^[4][5]

In Siena, De Carlo lead a project for the new suburb of San Miniato, which he criticized for its practical implementation (with its execution completed almost entirely by the municipality of Siena) and from which he dissociated himself later.

De Carlo died in Milan in 2005.^[6]

Honors and awards

De Carlo was awarded the Wolf Prize in Arts in 1988 and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1993.

Several times he was invited to universities around the world for conferences and meetings, receiving numerous awards and recognitions. De Carlo received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1995.^[7]

Projects

Commencing in the 1950s

• 1950–1951, Public Housing, Sesto San Giovanni, Milan.
• 1951–1953, Public Housing, Baveno.
• 1952–1960, Palazzo Bonaventura (Redevelopment), Seat of the University of Urbino.
• 1956–1957, Housing and Shops, Matera.
• 1958–1964, Masterplan, Urbino.

Commencing in the 1960s

• 1961–1965, Municipal Masterplan for Milan (with Alessandro Tutino and Silvano Tintori).
• 1961–1963, Summer Camp, Riccione.
• 1962–1965, Collegio del Colle Student Accommodation, Urbino.
• 1963, Restoration of retirement housing (Palazzo degli Anziani), Urbino.
• 1966–1968, Faculty of Law, Urbino.
• 1967–1969, La Pineta Quarter, Urbino.
• 1967–1969, Mirano Hospital, Metropolitan City of Venice
• 1968, Ca' Romanino (Casa Sichirollo), Urbino.
• 1968–1976, Faculty of Education, Urbino.
• 1969, Italian Pavilion, Osaka, Japan.
• 1969–1972, Redevelopment, Piazza del Mercatale, Urbino.

Commencing in the 1970s

• 1970–1975, Villaggio Matteotti Housing Development, Terni.
• 1970–1972, Plan for the center of Rimini and San Giuliano.
• 1971–1975, Restoration of Francesco di Giorgio's Staircase, Urbino.
• 1973–1983, Student Accommodation, Urbino.
• 1972–1985, Faculty of Engineering, University of Pavia.
• 1977–1982, Restoration of the theatre, Teatro Sanzio, Urbino.
• 1977–1979, Elementary and Middle School, Buia/Osoppo, Udine.
• 1979, Plans for the Redevelopment of the Historic Center of Palermo.
• 1979–1985, Housing, Mazzorbo, Venice.

Commencing in the 1980s

• 1980–1981, Restoration of the historic church and buildings of Cascina San Lazzaro, Pavia.
• 1980–1981, Competition entry for Piazzale delle Pace, Parma.
• 1981–1983, Restoration of the Prè area of Genoa.
• 1983, New seat for the Scuola del Libro High School, Urbino
• 1982–2001, Faculty of Medicine and Biology, University of Siena.
• 1983–1987, Restoration of the historic boatshed, Cervia
• 1986–2005, Carlo Cattaneo High School, San Miniato, Province of Pisa.
• 1986–1999, Restoration of Palazzo Battiferri, Urbino.
• 1986–2004, Restoration and Redevelopment of the Monastery of San Nicolò l'Arena, Catania.
• ?–1989, Masterplan, historic centre of Lastra a Signa.
• 1989–2005, Sports Complex, Mazzorbo, Venice.
• 1989–1994, New Masterplan, Urbino.

Commencing in the 1990s

• 1992–2005, New Palace of Justice, Pesaro.
• 1993–1999, Restoration and redevelopment of the hamlet, Colletta di Castelbianco, Savona.
• 1994–2000, Entrance gates to the Republic of San Marino.
• 1995–2002, Café/Bathing Establishment, Nuovo Blue Moon, Lido, Venice.
• 1996, Plans for ferry dock, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• 1997–2001, Restoration of Castello di Montefiore, Recanati.
• 1997–1998, University campus, via Roccaromana, Catania.

Commencing in the 2000s

• 2000–2001, Competition entry for Ponte Parodi, Genoa.
• 2003, Competition entry for the Porta Nuova Gardens, Milan.
• 2003–2006, Housing, Wadi Abou Jmeel, Beirut, Lebanon.
• 2003–2005, Children's center, Ravenna.

Further reading

• Benedict Zucchi (1992) Giancarlo De Carlo, Oxford: Butterworth Architecture
  ISBN 978-0-7506-1275-3
• John McKean 'Il Magistero: De Carlo's dialogue with historical forms', Places (California/Cambridge Mass) Vol 16, No 1, Fall 2003
  ISSN 0731-0455
• John McKean, Giancarlo De Carlo, Layered Places, Stuttgart and Paris (2004), published in English by Menges (Stuttgart) and in French by Centre Pompidou as "Giancarlo De Carlo: Des Lieux, Des Hommes".
  ISBN 978-3-932565-12-0
• John McKean, “Giancarlo De Carlo et l’experience politique de la participation”, in 'La Modernite Critique, autour du CIAM 9, d’Aix-en-Provence – 1953', ed. Bonillo, Massu & Pinson, Marseille: editions Imberton, 2006
• Alberto Franchini (2020) Il Villaggio Matteotti a Terni. Giancarlo De Carlo e l'abitare collettivo, Roma: L'Erma di Bretschneider
  ISBN 9788891320469 [1]

External links

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• [2] Faculty of Architecture, Università di Roma3. Students workshop and exhibition "Giancarlo De Carlo, Partigiano dell'Architettura" (Italian)
• ILAUD.ORG