Giancarlo De Carlo

Giancarlo De Carlo was born in Genoa, Italy in 1919 and died in Milan the 4th of June 2005. He trained in Italy as an architect from 1942 to 1949, a time of political turmoil which generated his philosophy toward life and architecture. Libertarian socialism was the underlying force for all of his planning and design.

De Carlo saw architecture as a consensus activity. He generated his designs from the inherent conflict that occurs in the site and historical context of architecture. His ideas linked C.I.A.M. ideals with late twentieth century reality.

Although his political beliefs have limited his portfolio of buildings, his ideas have remained untainted by postmodernist beliefs through his journal Spazio e Società - Space & Society and through his class on the International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban support Design (I.L.A.U.D.), as well as through theof his Team X colleagues.

External links

• book review (in Italian)
• book review (in Italian)

The key text on De Carlo is: John McKean, Giancarlo De Carlo, Layered Places, Stuttgart and Paris (2004), published in English by Axel Menges and in French by Centre Pompidou.