Prof. CORRADO BEGUINOT

Corrado Beguinot, committed for more than fifty years in the scientific research and experimentation related to urban planning, has recently started a number of activities for promoting and coordinating the international scientific research on the topic of "Città Cablata" and European interethnic cities.

In particular, he established the group "Technological Innovation and Territorial Transformations for the 21st century city" carrying out the research about the "Città Cablata" through several "look-towers" located in some Italian cities as well as in many world cities, i.e. Tokyo, Pune, Delft, Newcastle upon Tyne, Barcelona, Harbin, Monaco, Geneva, Paris, Jerusalem, Bogotà, Caracas, Quito, Seoul, Almaty, Moscow, Stettin,etc.

According to this, he was the promoter of the draft for a new Town Planning Charter, the Charter of Megaride '94 worked out by over 600 town planners from 32 different countries.

Full Professor of "Town Planning Technique" at Naples University "Federico II", from 1965 to 1999. Professor of "Architecture and Architectural Composition" with a temporary appointment, from 1959 to 1970.

Head of the Institute of "Architecture and Town Planning" in the Faculty of Engineering at Naples University, from 1959 to 1976 and Head of the "Town and Land Planning and Science" Department of Naples University "Federico II", from 1992 to 1999.

Member of several high level committees at national and European level.

President of the Foundation A. Della Rocca - Rome, since 1992.

Author and co-author of forty volumes and 200 essays about topics related to town planning, architecture, hospital organization and technological innovation published on Italian and foreign reviews from 1950 to 2006.

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