(b Rome, 18 July 1926). Italian architect and urban planner. After training with Marcello Piacentini, he attended the University of Rome, from which he graduated in 1950, setting up practice in Rome in 1951. His first professional experience was with Mario Ridolfi and Ludovico Quaroni on the INA-Casa housing (1949–54) on Via Tiburtina, Rome, a notable example of Italian neo-realism, where he acquired the practical skills seen in later housing such as Spine Bianche (1955–7) at Matera, or the Tratturo dei Preti housing (1957–9) at Foggia. Aymonino was active on the editorial board of Il contemporaneo from 1954 and was a contributor to Casabella from 1957 to 1965, and thus participated in the architectural debates of the late 1950s. In 1957 he was a founder-member of the Società di Architettura e Urbanistica (S.A.U.). In 1960 he founded Studio AYDE with Maurizio Aymonino, his brother, and the brothers Baldo and Alessandro De Rossi. In urban planning he developed the idea of directional centres, linking cities with their environs in terms of recognizable urban typologies, and demonstrated it formally in his competition proposals for the city centres of Turin and Bologna (with others), both of 1962.

• Aymonino, Carlo
  • Italy, §II, 6(iii): Architecture: Neo-Realism & Neo-Liberty to La Tendenza, c 1946–c 1970
  • collaboration
    • Quaroni, Ludovico
    • Rossi, Aldo
  • groups and movements
    • Post-modernism, §1: Architecture
  • works
    • Italy, §II, 6(iv): Architecture: Post-modernism, after c 1970