Renato De Fusco dead: farewell to the architectural historian

He passed away this night, at the age of 95, in his home in Posillipo in Naples, Renato De Fusco, internationally renowned architecture and design historian, professor emeritus of the Federico University of Naples. Reference figure of the school Neapolitan architecturehis works and his countless publications, published by the major national and foreign publishing houses, constitute a fundamental contribution to the development of the culture of architecture, design and the arts from the second half of the twentieth century until today.

Dedicated with great passion to university teaching until the end, he trained entire generations of architects and scholars. The magazine «Op.cit. Selection of contemporary art criticism – still active – directed by him for sixty years, born in the cultural climate of Arturo Carola’s gallery “Il Centro”, testifies to his constant and rigorous scientific commitment. The magazine received the Inarch Prize in 1967.

Another Inarch Award this time “for lifetime achievement” was given to him in 2001. In 2008, after decades of academic activity, carried out without ever neglecting the more generally cultural activity spent outside, also through conferences and articles in major newspapers, he received the Compass ADI Gold Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2013 he received the Mannajuolo Prize for culture at the Blu di Prussia gallery, where he used to hold conferences.

The news of his passing was given by his wife Emma and his children Luca and Carlotta. The funeral will be held on Wednesday 1 May, at 11 am, in the church of San Luigi Gonzaga in Naples, via Francesco Petrarca n. 115.

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