Bontempi Career Timeline
1954 - Bontempi is born in Fornovo di Taro, a small town outside of Parma, Italy.
Fornovo di Taro, Italy
Pier Carlo Bontempi as a child
Photo Credit: Pier Carlo Bontempi
A traditional street in Fornovo di Taro
Photo Credit: Davide Papalini via Wikimedia Commons
1973-1980 - Bontempi studies architecture at the University of Florence.
The architecture school of the University of Florence on San Marco Square, Florence, Italy
1980 - At the first Venice Biennale of Architecture, Bontempi is influenced by the ideas of Léon Krier of Luxembourg and Maurice Culot of Belgium.
Venice, Italy
1988 - Bontempi establishes his architecture practice near Parma, Italy.
Pier Carlo Bontempi with his staff – and his children
Pier Carlo Bontempi in his office
Photo Credit: Pier Carlo Bontempi
Parma, Italy
1997 - 1998 - Bontempi teaches at the Prince of Wales Institute in London.
Bontempi with Prince Charles. The Prince of Wales Institute focused on traditional architecture and urban design.
2000 - Bontempi delivers the John Burgee Annual Lecture at the University of Notre Dame.
The Architecture School at the University of Notre Dame
2001 - Bontempi receives the Congress for the New Urbanism’s Charter Award for the design of Fonti di Matilde.
Fonti di Matilde, a resort near Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy
2002 - Bontempi wins the competition to design Place de Toscane in Val d’Europe, outside Paris.
Place de Toscane is inspired by the Piazza dell’Anfiteatro, an elliptical piazza in Lucca, Italy.
2008 - Place de Toscane receives the 2008 Palladio Award.
Place de Toscane in Val d’Europe, France
2014 - Pier Carlo Bontempi becomes The Driehaus Prize Laureate.
