Giancarlo De Carlo belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Giancarlo De Carlo as Italian architect (1919-2005).
Giancarlo De Carlo was born in 1919. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Italy.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Kingdom of Italy shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Giancarlo De Carlo died in 2005, aged 86. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
