Giovanni Astengo
Giovanni Astengo (13 April 1915 – 26 July 1990) was an Italian architect, urban planner and academic. He taught at the IUAV University of Venice, directed the journal Urbanistica from 1952 to 1976, and was one of the leading figures of post-war Italian urban planning. Astengo prepared or led master plans for several Italian cities, including Assisi, Gubbio, Bergamo, Pavia and Pisa, and helped establish Italy's first university degree programme in urban planning at IUAV.
Giovanni Astengo
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- Name
- Giovanni Astengo
- Born
- 13 April 1915
- Birthplace
- Turin, Kingdom of Italy
- Died
- 26 July 1990
- Place of death
- San Giovanni in Persiceto, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
- Education
- Polytechnic University of Turin
- Occupation
- Architect, urban planner, academic
- Nationality
- Italy · Kingdom of Italy
- Languages
- Italian
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Giovanni Astengo (13 April 1915 – 26 July 1990) was an Italian architect, urban planner and academic. He taught at the IUAV University of Venice, directed the journal Urbanistica from 1952 to 1976, and was one of the leading figures of post-war Italian urban planning. Astengo prepared or led master plans for several Italian cities, including Assisi, Gubbio, Bergamo, Pavia and Pisa, and helped establish Italy's first university degree programme in urban planning at IUAV.
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• Name — Giovanni Astengo • Born — 13 April 1915 • Birthplace — Turin, Kingdom of Italy • Died — 26 July 1990 • Place of death — San Giovanni in Persiceto, Emilia-Romagna, Italy • Education — Polytechnic University of Turin • Occupation — Architect, urban planner, academic
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- Construction and communication of Falchera: An INA-Casa neighborhood in Turin by Giovanni Astengo, SAJ - Serbian Architectural Journal, 2017
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- The elusive polemics of theory and practice: Giovanni Astengo, Giorgio Rigotti and the post-war debate over the plan for Turin, Planning Perspectives, 2000
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