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Francesco Moschini (born 1948, Bogliaco, (fraction of Gargnano), Italy) is an Italian architect, art historian, historian and professor of architecture at the Polytechnic University of Bari. Since 2008 he has been appointed member of the Accademia di San Luca and since 2011 he is its general secretary.
In 1969, after his secondary studies in Brescia, he moved to Rome to attend the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia, at the same time he enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Rome. At the same time he follows a series of courses at the Faculty of Letters and philosophy, where he takes exams with Giulio Carlo Argan, Emilio Garroni, Alberto Asor Rosa and with Ferruccio Marotti. [1] Since 1974 he has been a member of the International Association of Art Critics (IAIS). He is a member of the Scientific Council of certain magazines, including "Paesaggio Urbano", "Il Disegno di Architettura" and of the "Centro di Studi per la Storia dell'Architettura" Center for Studies for the History of architecture. From 1982 to 1985, he collaborated with the magazine Domus. In 1978, he founded in Rome the A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna a center for the production and promotion of cultural initiatives. Since 1993 opened a new head office of A.A.M. in Milan. In 2003 in Bari, at the Department of Architecture and Town Planning of the Polytechnic School of Bari, he created the Fondo Francesco Moschini consisting of a donation of more than 70,000 volumes, already from its private library.
Aldo Rossi was an Italian architect and designer who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: architectural theory, drawing and design and also product design. He was one of the leading proponents of the postmodern movement.
Manfredo Tafuri was an Italian Marxist architect, historian, theoretician, critic and academic. He was described by one commentator as the world's most important architectural historian of the second half of the 20th century. He is noted for his pointed critiques of the partisan "operative criticism" of previous architectural historians and critics like Bruno Zevi and Siegfried Giedion and for challenging the idea that the Renaissance was a "golden age" as it had been characterised in the work of earlier authorities like Heinrich Wölfflin and Rudolf Wittkower.
Bruno Zevi was an Italian architect, historian, professor, curator, author, and editor. Zevi was a vocal critic of "classicizing" modern architecture and postmodernism.
Massimo Carmassi is an Italian architect.
The Chiesa dei Santi Apostoli di Cristo, commonly called San Apostoli, is a 7th-century Roman Catholic church located in the Cannaregio sestiere of the Italian city of Venice. It is one of the oldest churches in the city and has undergone numerous changes since its foundation. The present building is the result of a major reconstruction project which was undertaken in 1575. The church is notable particularly for the Cornaro Chapel, an important example of Early Renaissance architecture, added by Mauro Codussi during the 1490s. The chapel is the burial place of several members of the powerful Cornaro family, including Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus and Armenia. The church houses several works of art including pieces by Giambattista Tiepolo and Paolo Veronese.
Francesco Somaini was an Italian sculptor.
Carmine Benincasa was an Italian art critic and art historian professor.
Francesco Dal Co is an Italian historian of architecture. He graduated in 1970 at the University Iuav of Venice, and has been director of the Department of History of Architecture since 1994. He has been Professor of History of Architecture at the Yale School of Architecture from 1982 to 1991 and professor of History of Architecture at the Accademia di Architettura of the Università della Svizzera Italiana from 1996 to 2005. From 1988 to 1991 he has been director of the Architectural Section at the Biennale di Venezia and curator of the architectural section in 1998. Since 1978 he has been curator of the architectural publications for publishing House Electa and since 1996 editor of the architectural magazine Casabella.
Francesco Stella, known professionally as Franco Stella, is an Italian architect.
Paesaggio Urbano - Urban Design is a bimonthly magazine focusing on architecture and urban design, founded in 1989, published by Gruppo Maggioli. The magazine offers a multi-disciplinary approach on urban phenomena like sociology, urban typology, economics, architecture and local and international cultural trends. The main focus of the magazine is the urban transformation and the analysis of influencing factors that impact on contemporary architecture. Since 2010 the magazine has started its internationalization process offering contents in English as part of its major restyle in 2011.
Francesco Gostoli is an Italian architect. He has written a great number of articles and studies for journals and magazines such as Spazio & Società. He invented the Metro Armonico, a means of creating and defining ergonomic dimensions, published in “Architecture as I see it”, 2004.
Wolfgang Lotz was a German art historian specialized in Italian Renaissance architecture.
Angelo Torricelli is an Italian architect.
Mario Salmi was an Italian art historian and art critic who specialized in Romanesque architecture, Tuscan sculpture and the early Italian Renaissance.
Lauretta Vinciarelli was an artist, architect, and professor of architecture at the collegiate level.
Francesco Compagna was an Italian politician, journalist and academic.
Francesco Eschinardi, also known under the pseudonym of Costanzo Amichevoli, was an Italian Jesuit, physicist and mathematician.
Roberto Gargiani is an Italian architectural historian and a full professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Elisa Montessori is an Italian painter.
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