Bruno Zevi

Biography
Bruno Zevi was an Italian architect, historian, professor, and open critic of postmodernism and classicizing trends in architecture.
In 1933, he enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Rome, but due to his Jewish background, he was forced to interrupt his studies in 1938. He moved to London and later immigrated to the USA, where he discovered the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and studied architecture under Walter Gropius at Harvard University. In 1943, he returned to London, where he joined the Allies in World War II. In 1944, he founded the Association for Organic Architecture (APAO). His book Towards an Organic Architecture (1950) brought him international recognition. In 1945, he became a professor of the history of architecture at the IUAV University of Venice. He later served as a professor at the University of Rome and as a member of the International Academy of Architecture (IAA) in Sofia, Bulgaria. From 1955, he regularly wrote a column for the weekly magazine L'Espresso. He was involved in the Action Party, later in the People's Unity, and in the Radical Party, which he represented in the Chamber of Deputies from 1987 to 1992. From 1954 until his death, he was the editor of his own magazine L'architettura. Cronache e storia.