18 Facts About Luigi Moretti

Luigi Moretti was the founder of the Institute for Operations Research and Applied Mathematics Urbanism, where he developed his research on the history of architecture, and on the application of algorithmic methods to architectural design.

Luigi Moretti is recognized as the inventor of parametric architecture.

Luigi Moretti was born on via Napoleone III, on the Esquiline Hill, in the same apartment where he lived almost his entire life.

Luigi Moretti was the natural son of Luigi Rolland, engineer and architect, born in Rome in a Belgian family, whose most important work is Teatro Adriano, and Maria Giuseppina Moretti.

Luigi Moretti attended primary and secondary school at Collegio San Giuseppe - Istituto De Merode and from 1925 he studied at the Royal School of Architecture in Rome.

In 1929, Moretti graduated with honors, with a project for a college of higher education Rocca di Papa, where he won the Giuseppe Valadier award.

In 1932, Luigi Moretti entered in competitions for the town planning of Verona, Perugia, and Faenza, for which he obtained the second place.

Luigi Moretti entered in a competition for a council house complex in Naples.

Luigi Moretti's work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Luigi Moretti's are the major planner of the Forum, enriched in the 1937 with the square of the Empire and the Stadium of Cypresses.

Luigi Moretti won the competition for the design of the Imperial Square.

Luigi Moretti served in that period, in private practice, thanks mainly to his friendships with Fascist officials and journalists.

Luigi Moretti reappeared in 1945, was arrested for his collaboration with fascism, and was briefly imprisoned in the prison of San Victor, where he met count Adolfo Fossataro.

Luigi Moretti was a close associate of the French art critic and theorist Michel Tapie, with whom in 1960 Luigi Moretti co-founded the International Center of Aesthetic Research in Turin, Italy, an institution that lasted until 1987, after the death of Tapie.

Luigi Moretti studied new dimensional relationships in architectural space and urban area, relating to the design of the Built Environment, with mathematical analysis, like Le Corbusier had studied the Modulor and the golden ratio.

In 1958 Luigi Moretti participated with Adalberto Libera, Vittorio Cafiero, Amedeo Luccichenti and Vincenzo Monaco in the project of the Olympic Village in Rome designed for the XVII Olympiad scheduled in 1960.

Two years before his death, Luigi Moretti described the concept of Parametric Architecture in an article published in Moebius.

Luigi Moretti died in 1973 from heart failure while he was in the midst of his work.