Francesco Dal Co (born 29 December 1945) is an Italian historian of architecture. He graduated in 1970 at the

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, and has been director of the Department of History of Architecture since 1994. He has been Professor of History of Architecture at the

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from 1982 to 1991 and professor of History of Architecture at the Accademia di Architettura of the

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from 1996 to 2005. From 1988 to 1991 he has been director of the Architectural Section at the

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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

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. In 2018 he curated the Pavilion of the Holy See at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale

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. The architects who designed the ten chapels were: Andrew Berman (USA), Francesco Cellini (Italy), Javier Corvalàn (Paraguay), Flores & Prats (Spain),

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(UK), Teronobu Fujimori (Japan),

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(Australia), Carla Juaçaba (Brazil), Smiljan Radic (Chile), Eduardo Souto de Moura (Portugal). He is currently Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies of the

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, scholar at the

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, and member of the board of directors of the

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. He is also member of the National Academy of San Luca.

Selected works

* "The American City" (with others)

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, Cambridge Mass. 1979; Granada, London 1980 * "Modern Architecture" (with M. Tafuri), Abrams, New York 1979; Thames and Hudson, London 1980 * "Kevin Roche", Rizzoli, New York 1985 * " Carlo Scarpa. the complete works" (with G. Mazzariol), Architectural Press, London 1986; Rizzoli, New York 1986 * "Figures of Architecture and Thought", Rizzoli, New York 1991 * "

Tadao Ando is a self-taught Japanese autodidact architect known for his unique integration of architecture and landscape. Architectural historian Francesco Dal Co described his work as an example of " critical regionalism". Ando received the prestigious ...

". Complete Works, Phaidon, London 1995 * "Carlo Scarpa". Villa Ottolenghi, The Monacelli Press, New York 1998 * "Frank. O. Gehry. The Complete Works", (with K.W. Forster and A. Soutter Arnold) The Monacelli Press, New York 1998 * "Tadao Ando", 1995–2010, Prestel, Munich-Berlin-London-New York 2010

References

External links

* List of Francesco Dal Co works on Google Books * List of Francesco Dal Co works on Getty Search {{DEFAULTSORT:Dal Co, Drancesco Italian architectural historians Casabella editors Italian male non-fiction writers Place of birth missing (living people) 1945 births Living people Academic staff of the Università della Svizzera italiana