Diane Ghirardo is a professor of architecture at the

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. She is also the author of several books and essays on architectural history and theory. Her translation of

The Architecture of the City ''The Architecture of the City'' () is a seminal book of urban design theory by the Italian architect Aldo Rossi published in Padova in 1966. The book marks the shift from the urban doctrines of modernism to a rediscovery of the traditional Europe ...

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into English was first published in 1982. Ghirardo received her B.A. from

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, and her M. A. and Ph. D. degrees from

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. The ACSA (

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) honored Ghirardo with the ACSA Distinguished Professor Award in 1998-99.ACSA Archives, Distinguished Professor Award winners.
/ref> She was awarded a Danforth Fellowship in 1973, a Fulbright Fellowship in 1976 and 2001, a Rome Prize fellowship in 1987, a

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in 2002, an NEH Senior Fellowship in 2001. She was elected President of ACSA in 1993, appointed to the Board of Directors of the National Architectural Education Board in 2005, and served as executive editor of the ''Journal of Architectural Education'' from 1988-1999.

Books and articles by Ghirardo

* "Italian Architects and Fascist Politics: An Evaluation of the Rationalist's Role in Regime Building". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 39(2), 109-127. University of California Press, 1980 * “Past or Post Modern in Architectural Fashion”
''Telos''
62 (Winter 1984-85). New York: Telos Press. *''Architecture After Modernism''. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1996. *''Mark Mack''. Tübingen: Wasmuth, 1994. *''Out of Site: A Social Criticism of Architecture''. Seattle: Bay Press, 1991. *''Building New Communities: New Deal America and Fascist Italy''. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. * ''Dopo il Sogno. Architettura e Città nell'America di oggi.'' Turin: Allemandi 2008 * Italy. Modern Architectures in History, London: Reaktion, 2013 * '' Aldo Rossi and the Spirit of Architecture'', New Haven and London, 2019. * ''I tesori di Lucrezia Borgia, ''Golinelli, Modena, 2019 * ''Lucrezia Borgia. Le lettere. ''Archivio di Stato e Trelune Editore,'' ''Modena and Mantova, 2020''

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