Alessandro Ripellino practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Alessandro Ripellino as Swedish architect.
Alessandro Ripellino was born at Rome in 1957. His recorded nationality is Sweden.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
He is recorded as architect, designer and photographer.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Sweden shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Alessandro Ripellino is still practising, and the body of work is not yet complete.
