Education
Born in Rome, he studied at the University of Rome, obtaining his degree in 1950.
architect university professor
Born in Rome, he studied at the University of Rome, obtaining his degree in 1950.
In the same years, he also got trained by Marcello Piacentini. Starting in 1954, Aymonino also worked as editor of the magazine Il contemporaneo. Between 1957 and 1965 he also wrote for Casabella, participating to the late 1950s strong, vivid cultural and architectural debates.
In 1973, Aymonino published L"Abitazione Razionale: Atti de Congressi Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne 1929-1930, an analysis of social housing.
lieutenant catalogued and analyzed apartment plans from modernist developments in European and American cities, as well as older courtyard houses and linear houses. lieutenant was one of the early examples of a typological approach to architecture and urbanism, which are central to the neo-Rationalist and New Urbanist movements.
The book also included reprints of papers on social housing from the Congrès International d"Architecture Moderne (Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne) conferences in Frankfurt in 1929 (papers by Siegfried Giedion, Ernst May, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Victor Bourgeois), and in Brussels in 1930 (Giedon, Böhm and Kaufmann, Gropius, Richard Neutra, and Tiege). Concerning the town planning activity, Aymonino developed the idea of the Directional Centre as a tool capable of linking a city to its surroundings.
This appeared applicable in particular to recognizable urban typologies.
Aymonino put into practice such concepts and theories in the 1962 competition proposals for the city centres of Turin and Bologna.