urbanism

February 16, 2019
Pienza & “The Medici”

April 14, 2016
Neoclassical architect and designer Giuseppe Valadier was born on this day, April 14, in 1762.

October 17, 2015
Architect, urban planner, and furniture designer Franco Albini was born on 17 October 1905 in the Lombard town of Robbiate.

July 3, 2015
Italian architect Carlo Aymonino died on 3 July 2010 in his native city of Rome, just two weeks shy of his 84th birthday.

October 29, 2013
Speleologists (those who study caves) have mapped the eleven aqueducts built by Roman engineers to supply the ancient city with fresh water.

August 20, 2013
Rome’s Start to Architectural Hubris

July 24, 2013
Facelift for marble façades in Florence’s Piazza del Duomo.

July 16, 2013
On this day in 1903, Italian modernist Adalberto Libera was born in the northern town of Villa Lagarina.

July 16, 2013
On this day in 1854, Italian architect Nicolò Bettoli died in Parma.