Vittorio Gregotti, a prominent Italian architect, has died

Vittorio Gregotti was undoubtedly one of the greatest Italian architects of the twentieth century, the protagonist of the Italian neo-nationalist line. He was also an important theorist of architecture. During the years 1955 to 1963 he worked as the editor-in-chief of the world-renowned Casabella magazine, and in 1975 he founded the world's most important architecture exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Gregotti has been a professor of architecture at the universities of Venice, Milan and Palermo and has been a visiting professor in Sofia, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Lausanne, Harvard, Philadelphia, Princeton, Cambridge, and the American MIT.

At the suggestion of Professor Miroslav Masák, Václav Havel invited him to Prague in the early 1990s for a workshop where important European and Czech architects dealt with the issues of urban development. At the initiative of the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, CTU, prof. Vladimír Šlapeta, Vittorio Gregotti was awarded with an honorary doctorate in 1996.