Pierluigi Giordani Biography
Pierluigi Giordani was an Italian architect and urban planner. He graduated in Engineering from the University of Bologna in 1951 and was a voluntary assistant in Urban Planning Techniques in the same Faculty. In the early 1950s, following the agrarian reform of the Po Delta, he worked on numerous reclamation interventions, emerging as one of the most attentive scholars and planners of the territory. These interventions were the subject of numerous publications by local and national media. From 1963 until the early 2000s, he dedicated himself mainly to research, study and university teaching, simultaneously slowing down his architectural and urban planning activity.
During this period, he carried out some important projects, including the Manufacturing Programs of the municipalities of Guiglia and Zocca (MO) and Villa Minozzo (RE); the General Regulatory Plan (PRG) and the Popular Economic Housing Plan (PEEP) of Rimini; the Detailed Plan for the historic center of Ravenna, with L. Quaroni as group leader and the collaboration of C. Salmoni and G. Orioli; the integrated residential complex in the Darsena area of Ravenna, with the participation of L. Quaroni, P. Salmoni and C. Salmoni; and the ISES residential complex in Beverara, Bologna.
In 1970 he was appointed Corresponding Academician of the Academy of Arts and Design. During his career he has participated in numerous national and international competitions, obtaining recognition for his design proposals for the Bologna business center (created together with C. Aymonino and V. Parlato) and the study on the use of the abandoned area of the Manifattura Tabacchi di Bologna (created in collaboration with C. Aymonino).
Among the public buildings he created are the Church of the Immacolata in Ferrara and an elementary school in Ravenna, based on a project drawn up in collaboration with L. Quaroni, P. Salmoni and C. Salmoni. Regarding the residential buildings designed and built in the last years of his career, we remember the condominium building in Piazza Matteotti in Ascoli Piceno, built in collaboration with A. Tomassetti; the Modesti house in the Porto area of Giglio Island; and the house of the artist Zauli in Faenza, in the province of Ravenna.
