1923-2017 The death of Leonardo Benevolo on 5 January 2017 was also that of the last generation of master theorists and historians of architecture in the 20th century, in particular Italian architecture: the one that starts with Bruno Zevi and Giulio

1919-2016 James Ackerman passed away on 31 December 2016, at 97. He was one of the most influential professors of art and architectural history in the United States. Born in San Francisco in 1919, Ackerman studied at Yale University, where he met his

Luis Fernández-Galiano   In the old liturgy of Holy Week, candles were extinguished one at a time until the church was left in darkness. For the history of architecture this has been a somber year, as the nonagenarian flames of five exceptional figures have died out. On New