Francesco Dal Co (born 29 December 1945) is an Italian historian of architecture. He graduated in 1970 at the

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, and has been director of the Department of History of Architecture since 1994. He has been Professor of History of Architecture at the

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from 1982 to 1991 and professor of History of Architecture at the Accademia di Architettura of the Università della Svizzera Italiana from 1996 to 2005. From 1988 to 1991 he has been director of the Architectural Section at the

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and curator of the architectural section in 1998. Since 1978 he has been curator of the architectural publications for publishing House Electa and since 1996 editor of the architectural magazine

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. In 2018 he curated the Pavilion of the Holy See at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale

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. The architects who designed the ten chapels were: Andrew Berman (USA), Francesco Cellini (Italy), Javier Corvalàn (Paraguay), Flores & Prats (Spain),

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(UK), Teronobu Fujimori (Japan),

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(Australia),

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(Brazil),

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(Portugal). He is currently Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies of the

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, scholar at the

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, and Member of the Board of Directors of the

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. He is also member of the National Academy of San Luca.

Selected works

* "The American City" (with others) Mit Press, Cambridge Mass. 1979; Granada, London 1980 * "Modern Architecture" (with M. Tafuri), Abrams, New York 1979; Thames and Hudson, London 1980 * "Kevin Roche", Rizzoli, New York 1985 * "Carlo Scarpa. the complete works" (with G. Mazzariol), Architectural Press, London 1986; Rizzoli, New York 1986 * "Figures of Architecture and Thought", Rizzoli, New York 1991 * "Tadao Ando". Complete Works, Phaidon, London 1995 * "Carlo Scarpa". Villa Ottolenghi, The Monacelli Press, New York 1998 * "Frank. O. Gehry. The Complete Works", (with K.W. Forster and A. Soutter Arnold) The Monacelli Press, New York 1998 * "Tadao Ando", 1995–2010, Prestel, Munich-Berlin-London-New York 2010

References

External links

* List of Francesco Dal Co works on Google Books * List of Francesco Dal Co works on Getty Search {{DEFAULTSORT:Dal Co, Drancesco Italian architectural historians Casabella editors Italian male non-fiction writers Place of birth missing (living people) 1945 births Living people University of Lugano faculty