Fernando Clemente

Fernando Clemente (17 December 1917 – 16 March 1998) was an Italian architect and urban planner.

Fernando Clemente
Born	(1917-12-17)17 December 1917 Sassari, Kingdom of Italy
Died	16 March 1998(1998-03-16) (aged 80)
Alma mater	University of Florence
Occupation(s)	Architect, urban planner

Life and career

Clemente graduated at the University of Florence, where he was a student of Giovanni Michelucci.^[1][2] In the 1950s, he designed the villages of Masone Pardu, Olia Speciosa, Tottubella, and Uccari in Sardinia.^[3]

In the 1960s, he became the director of the Institute of Technical Architecture at the University of Bologna, succeeding Michelucci. He also worked on the master plans for Pisa, Lucca, Sassari, Florence, and Bologna.^[1]

Between 1975 and 1995, Clemente served as the director of the Institute of Urban Planning at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Cagliari, and later as the first director of the Department of Land Engineering.^[1]

In 2004, the library of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Sassari in Alghero was named after him. In 2010, the Sardinian section of the National Institute of Urban Planning (INU) named an award after him.

Works (selection)

"New Skyscraper" Sassari, 1965

• New and old skyscraper, (1952–1965), Sassari
• District of Latte Dolce, Sassari
• Faculty of Veterinary, 1966, Parma
• Faculty of Agrarian Studies, 1967, Sassari
• Reconstruction of the Ancona Courthouse, 1975–1989, Ancona

Writings

• Clemente, Fernando, La pianificazione territoriale in Sardegna, Gallizzi, Sassari, 1964.
• Clemente, Fernando, Un'esperienza di prefabbricazione pesante nell'edilizia, Gallizzi, Sassari, 1965.
• Clemente Fernando (editor), Pianificazione del territorio e sistema informativo, Angeli, Milano, 1984.
• Clemente Fernando (editor), Cultura del paesaggio e metodi del territorio, Janus, Cagliari, 1987.