Romaldo "Aldo" Giurgola (1920 – 2016) was an Italian academic, architect, professor, and author. He was born in Rome, in 1920. After service in the Italian armed forces during World War II, he was educated at the Sapienza University of Rome. He studied architecture at the University of Rome, completing the equivalent of a B.Arch. with honors in 1949.

The theme of this year’s 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, “Reporting from the Front,” has created a major international shakeup in the way architectural practitioners collectively view their approach to the work that they do, not just on the global front, but on the local level and to the world-wide communities that architects serve.