Giancarlo De Carlo
Wolf Prize Laureate in Architecture 1988
Giancarlo De Carlo
Award citation:
“for their work which represents the spirit of an architecture that looks to the future without renouncing the past; brings about meaningful shapes and environments without forsaking human and social aspects and responds to universal issues without neglecting regional attributes”.
Prize share:
Giancarlo De Carlo
Fumihiko Maki
With unstable values and dubious notions prevailing in their field, Fumihiko Maki and Giancarlo De Carlo, each in his own way and in different corners of the world, have succeeded in reaching invaluable achievements, which successfully augment the scale of the modern movement in architecture thus constituting its legitimate extension – most reasonable sequel.
Giancarlo De Carlo maintained a courageous stand vis-a-vis the current architectural scene and, also a solitary one. His range of interests spanning a large horizon. Significantly in this respect, is the name De Carlo chose for the review he initiated and directs: “Spazio e Societa”.
Particularly commendable – even exemplary – is the painstaking work he has carried out with great skill over the years for the benefit of smaller mediaeva l towns in Italy on a general planning, restorative and architectural level: notably Urbino.
De Carlo is also influential polemically through his writings, his lecturing and his teaching at home and abroad. As for the buildings of this tireless all-rounder, they are admirably sited, inventive and subtly detailed always generously conceived to accommodate people. They are also manifestly contemporary yet unobtrusively imbued with the past. They are, in fact, gratifyingly intelligent.
