Alessandro Tutino

His work focused on regional planning, inter-municipal cooperation and the development of Italian urban planning legislation, including early proposals that influenced planning agreements and urban standards.

• Name — Alessandro Tutino • Born — 8 August 1926 • Birthplace — Milan, Kingdom of Italy • Died — 15 September 2022 • Place of death — Tregnago, Province of Verona, Italy • Occupation — Architect, urban planner, academic • Education — IUAV University of Venice

Born in Milan, Tutino joined the Italian Resistance as a teenage volunteer with the partisan brigades in the Aosta Valley during World War II. He was a member of the Italian Communist Party. After the war he studied architecture at the Polytechnic University of Milan before completing his degree at the IUAV University of Venice in 1953. In the late 1940s, Tutino co-founded the Milan Architecture Collective with a group of young architects and students, including Gae Aulenti and Novella Sansoni. Inspired by the ideas of Franco Marescotti, the collective operated as a cooperative practice focused mainly on public commissions, working on social housing, schools and territorial planning. Active until 1987, it promoted an anti-formalist approach centred on urban management, public services and housing policies. During the 1960s and 1970s, Tutino was involved in the development of democratic metropolitan planning in northern Italy. He contributed to the Milan Intermunicipal Plan alongside Giancarlo De Carlo and to the Bologna Intermunicipal Plan with Giuseppe Campos Venuti, later working on numerous urban plans in Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna. As president of the Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica (1977–1983), he promoted debates on land-use reform and defended negotiated planning between public authorities and private actors. His approach influenced the development of urban planning tools such as development charges, urban standards and public works programming, later discussed in his book L'efficacia del piano (1986).

• Milan Intermunicipal Plan (1963–1965) • Bologna Intermunicipal Plan (1963) • Master plans for Rozzano (1961–1977), Castel Maggiore (1963), Melzo (1970–1978), Cogoleto (1974–1979), and San Donato Milanese (1983–1992) • Beigua Regional Nature Park planning scheme (1977–1979) • Verona Adige Park Environmental Plan (2007)