(b Rome, 28 March 1911; d Rome, 22 July 1987). Italian architect, urban planner, theorist and teacher. He graduated in architecture at the University of Rome in 1934, in a period dominated by academic tendencies, before drawing closer to modernist architecture through a study of the work of such architects as Paul Bonatz, Heinrich Tessenow and Emil Fahrenkampf. In 1935 he began his career in Rome working with Francesco Fariello and Saverio Muratori (1910–73), although his progress was impeded by the political situation and the cultural void that existed in Italy at that time. Quaroni’s works of the period include the competition design (1935) for the Auditorium di Roma; an urban plan (1935) for Aprilia; the Palazzo dei Ricevimenti e dei Congressi (1937), Rome; and the Piazza Imperiale (1939) for the Esposizione Universale in Rome. Evident influences were the Swedish Neo-classicism of Gunnar Asplund and aspects of Erich Mendelsohn’s work. He was also associated at this time with the group of architects and critics who contributed to the periodical Quadrante, and in 1937 he began a long teaching career that included posts at the universities of Rome, Florence and Naples.

• Quaroni, Ludovico
  • collaboration
    • Aymonino, Carlo
    • BBPR Architectural Studio
    • Ridolfi, Mario
  • pupils
    • Mutiso, David
    • Purini, Franco
  • works
    • Italy, §II, 6(iii): Architecture: Neo-Realism & Neo-Liberty to La Tendenza, c 1946–c 1970