Italo Insolera is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Italo Insolera as Italian architect (1929-2012).
Italo Insolera was born at Turin in 1929. His recorded nationality is Italy. He trained at Sapienza University of Rome and Italian School of Archaeology at Athens.
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, urban planner and architectural historian.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Italy shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Italo Insolera died in 2012, aged 83. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Sapienza University of Rome and Italian School of Archaeology at Athens
