AFTER the liberation, at the end of the War, Italian architects set for themselves two major goals: to catch up with modern architecture in the rest of the world and to rediscover the Italian ...

Italian Designer and architect Andrea Branzi passed away on October 9, 2023. Born in Florence in 1938, Branzi co-founded the world-renowned architecture studio Archizoon Associati. The studio also ...

The exhibition Zevi’s Architects: History and Counter-History of Italian Architecture, 1944-2000, curated by Pippo Ciorra and Jean-Louis Cohen at MAXXI in Rome, interweaves three strands of research ...

Italian architect and architectural historian Paolo Portoghesi died on May 30. He was 91. (Adriano Alecchi (Mondadori Publishers)/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain) AN cofounder Bill Menking and art ...

Italy is studded with historical buildings of incomparable value, and the same applies to its contemporary heritage. Photographically documenting this surprising variety of styles and languages is ...

There has always been something strange about the enduring popularity of architecture erected during the 21-year period of fascist rule in Italy. This is particularly true for Rationalism, the Italian ...

Italian media reports that architect Vittorio Gregotti—who helped transform the Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc (1927) in Barcelona into the 1992 Olympic Stadium—died of pneumonia in Milan on Sunday, March ...

MILAN — Italo Rota, the Milan-born Italian architect, designer and innovator, as he was widely known, died on Saturday. “Today we lose an absolute protagonist of Italian architecture and culture. We ...

In light of the interest in my recent story about George Ingham Barnett, I thought it might be worthwhile to look into the sort of education a young architect such as he would have received back in ...

Consecrated in 1208, Abbazia di Fossanova is considered by many to be one of the best examples of Cistercian architecture. The abbey is cruciform with square-ends. Carefully carved capitals line the ...

The styles of Beaux Arts and Italian Renaissance Revival ran on parallel timelines and had similarities. Both were inspired by the classical design elements of ancient Europe — France and Italy, ...

From Brunelleschi’s ingenious design of the dome crowning the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, to the vast ceiling of the Sistine Chapel decorated with Michelangelo’s staggering frescoes, ...