Architecture historian and critic, Italy Leonardo Benevolo is one of the most prolific writers on architecture in Italy. He was born in Orta in 1923 and graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Rome in 1946. Throughout his distinguished career as a professor of the history of architecture, he has taught in Rome, Florence, Venice, and at the University of Palermo. He has written more than 20 books on architecture over the last four decades, with a Encyclopedia of 20th-century architecture 242 focus on urban design and the problems of the city. Although he is not as widely read as Manfredo Tafuri or Kenneth Frampton, his books serve as important texts in the study of 20th-century architecture, both in Italy and around the world. Since the early 1960s with Le origini del l’ur banis tica moderna ( The Or igins of Modern Town Planning), Benevolo has concerned himself with the history and transformations of the city. This book addresses the industrial city, the Utopian...