Leonardo Benevolo (25 September 1923 – 5 January 2017) was an Italian

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

, city planner and architecture historian. Born in

Orta San Giulio Orta San Giulio (Piedmontese and ) is a town and (municipality) in the Province of Novara in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about northwest of Novara. It is one of ("The most beautiful villages of Italy"). ...

, Italy, Benevolo studied architecture in

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where he graduated in 1946. Later taught history of architecture in Rome,

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and

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.Tournikiotis, Panayotis
''The Historiography of Modern Architecture''
p. 283, MIT Press, 1999 His book ''Storia dell'archittetura moderna'' (History of Modern Architecture) first published in 1960 has been reprinted 18 times, as of 1996, and translated into six other languages. Benevolo developed the concept of ‘neo-conservative’ city which became an important contribution to the understanding of cities’ evolution.

Writings

*1967 ''The origins of Modern Town Planning'',

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*1977 ''History of Modern Architecture'', MIT Press *1980 ''The History of the City'', MIT Press *1995 ''The European City'', Wiley-Blackwell

References

1923 births 2017 deaths 20th-century Italian architects Italian architectural historians Italian male non-fiction writers People from Orta San Giulio Historians of urban planning {{Italy-art-historian-stub