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Bruno Zevi (1918 - 2000), was born in Rome in 1918. Here he graduated from the "Tasso" classical high school and enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture. Read the full biography

Bruno Zevi (1918 - 2000), was born in Rome in 1918. Here he graduated from the "Tasso" classical high school and enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture. Following the racial laws, he left Italy in 1938, going first to London and then to the United States. Here he graduated from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, chaired by Walter Gropius, and directed the "Quaderni Italiani" of the "Giustizia e Libertà" movement (1933-1944). He discovered Frank Lloyd Wright and organic architecture, of which he remained a lifelong supporter. Returning to Europe in 1943, he took part in the anti-fascist struggle in the ranks of the Action Party. In 1944 he promoted the Organic Architecture Association (APAO) and the following year he founded the magazine "Metron". From 1948 he was full professor of History of Architecture at the IUAV in Venice and from 1964 at the Faculty of Architecture in Rome. From 1954 to 2000 he held a weekly architecture column on "Cronache" and then on "L'Espresso"; articles from the first decades are collected in the twenty-five volumes of "Chronicles of architecture" (1945-54). In 1955 he founded the monthly "L'architettura-cronache e storia", which he directed continuously until January 2000 (1955-64). He was awarded honorary degrees by the Universities of Buenos Aires, Michigan and the Technion of Haifa; he was an honorary member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and of the American Institute of Architects, general secretary of the National Institute of Urban Planning (INU), vice-president of the National Institute of Architecture (In/arch), scholar of San Luca and 'International Institute of Architecture, president emeritus of the International Committee for Criticism of Architecture (CIC) (1965-77), president of the Radical Party and member of Parliament in the 10th legislature (1978-89). Among the works: "Towards an organic architecture", "Knowing how to see architecture" (translated into fifteen languages), "History of modern architecture", "Architecture in Nuce", "The modern language of architecture", " Knowing how to see the city ","Counterhistory and history of architecture"(1990-2000).