Author Description

<p></p><p>Ludovico Quaroni, a native Roman, was a master of Italian architecture<br/>during the second half of the twentieth century; his talent contributed to the<br/>education – in addition to the majority of the younger generations of<br/>architects in Italy – of Carlo Aymonino, Manfredo Tafuri and Antonino<br/>Terranova. He also constituted one of the fundamental references to the<br/>elaboration of Aldo Rossi’s theories on the city. An architect and urban<br/>planner, professor and author, Quaroni represents the most open and inclusive<br/>methodological and linguistic experimentalism and the most progressive identity<br/>of modern Italian architecture, founded on the close relationship between<br/>historic culture, social and contextual awareness, a scientific understanding<br/>of design and a passionate investigation of the future; courageous and<br/>unbridled. In adopting his name for the review presented today, the Scientific<br/>Society intends to return to the discussion of the Architecture of Cities at a<br/>time when methodologies, technologies, relationships between the scales of<br/>design, the formal and symbolic meanings and languages of the city, everything<br/>about which modern Western urban culture appeared certain, now appear overrun<br/>by the vertiginous nature of the most rapid and imposing urban expansion in<br/>human history, sweeping across both ancient and new continents. </p>