Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, born in Rome in 1951, is an architect and one of the world's leading urban scholars. He was director of the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt and has designed numerous important exhibitions, including in Berlin, Milan and Venice. Lampugnani was editor of the magazine ‘Domus’ and held the chair for the history of urban planning at ETH Zurich. He continues to work as an architect with his office, occasionally teaches at Harvard and publishes regularly in the ‘Neue Zürcher Zeitung’. His major three-volume history of urban planning was published by Wagenbach.
