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Bernardo Secchi - A short biography
Bernardo Secchi graduated in 1959 in civil engineering at the
Milan Polytechnic under prof. Giovanni Muzio with a thesis on
urbanistics. In 1960 he became the assistant of the same prof.
Muzio, Chair of Urbanistics, Faculty of Engineering, Milan Polytechnic.
During this time he was appointed a member the Scientific Comittee
of the Intercommunal Plan for the Milan area and head of the technical
office of the same plan. Following this he became Head of Research
at the Lombard institute of Economic and Social Studies (Ises).
In 1966 he was appointed professor of Territorial Economy, first
at the Faculty of Economics of Ancona, and following that, at
the Venice University Institute of Architecture. At the same time
he worked with prof. Giuseppe Samonà on the consultation draft
for the plan for the Province of Trento and the plan for the Valle
d'Aosta.
Since 1974 he has been a full professor of Urbanistics( Town planning
and design); From 1974 to 1984 at the Milan Faculty of Architecture,
where he was Principal from 1976 to 1982; and from 1984 at the
Venice University Institute of Architecture degree course in Architecture.
Since 1986 he has also taught at the "Ecole d'Architecture de
Gènève". In the following years he held seminars and courses at
the same institute, at the University of Leuven, at the Federal
Polytechnic of Zurich, at the Paris Institute of Urbanism and
at the Ecole d'Architecture de Rennes.
At the same time he was involved in drawing up the new general
city plan of Madrid, the new town plan for Jesi (1984-1987), Siena
(1986-1990), Abano (1991-1992) and, the plan for the old Town
Centre of Ascoli Piceno (1989-1993). He has worked with Paola
Viganò since 1990, producing the consultation draft of the territorial
plan for La Spezia and the Val di Magra (1989-1993) and for the
Province of Pescara, the new plan for Bergamo (1994), Prato (1996),
Brescia, Pesaro, Narni and for the Salento region (Province of
Lecce) in the South Italy.
He has designed public building quarters including the Plan for
Economical and Popular Building at Vicenza, and was commissioned
to draw up the consultation drafts of the recovery plan of the
Sècheron industrial area at Geneva (1989), for the plan of Rovereto
(1992); for the renovation plan of a small center close to Prato
(Garduna-Jolo 1988-1992), a plan for the IP area of La Spezia;
and he designed a carpark in a park in the 'area of Porta Torricella
at Ascoli Piceno.
In 1990 he won the competition for planning Hoog Kortrijk (Belgium)
having been invited to take part along with other European urbanists
and architects; he drew up the consultation draft of the city
of Kortrijk plan (1991) and in particular developed the projects
of the Great Square and the new Cemetery of the selfsame town.
Again with Paola Viganò he drew up the design of the public spaces
along the Dijle river in Mechelen (2001,Belgium) and won (2002)
the competition for a new design of Hoge Rielen (Belgium). As
a planning consultant he won the Ecopolis competition for the
project of a new city in Ukraine (group directed by Vittorio Gregotti,
1993). Working with others he won in 1993 the competition "Roma
città del Tevere" (Rome, City on the Tiber), a project for work
on the riverbank. With others he won the competition for the planning
of the Airport zone (Rectangle d'or) of Geneva (1996). Since 1996
he has been "urbaniste conseil" for the "Etablissement public
Euromediterranée" for the planning of the central and port areas
of Marseilles. He has been consultant since 1996 to the Genoa
Port Authorities working to produce the general plan for the port.
He was a founder member, and continues as a member, of the editorial
body of the Urban and Regional Study Archives: and since 1982
he has been continuously working with the magazine Casabella and
from 1984 to 1990 he directed Urbanistica. He has organised numerous
planning competitions including "the Bicocca project", Milan;
"Community buildings", Salerno and has been part of numerous jurys
for architectural and urbanistic competitions (Milan, Bicocca;
Antwerp, Staad aan de Stroom; Bologna: stazione centrale; Como:
Ticos area; Roma, Borghetto Flaminio; Geneva, Palais des Nations;
Lyon, Grand prix des formation, etc.).
His main publications include:
• La città del ventesimo secolo, Laterza, Roma
2005
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• Prima lezione di urbanistica, Laterza, Bari 2000
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• Tre piani, Franco Angeli, Milan, 1994
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• Un progetto per l'urbanistica, Einaudi, Torino
1989
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• Il racconto urbanistico, Einaudi, Torino 1984
• Squilibri territoriali e sviluppo economico, Marsilio,
Venezia 1974
• Analisi economica dei problemi territoriali, Giuffrè,
Milano 1965
• Analisi delle strutture territoriali, Angeli, Milano
1965
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