The first student housing at the University of Urbino (Italy), built in the early 1960s, served as a guide to changes in the overall organization of additional housing constructed a decade later. (Author/MLF)

For over a quarter of a century architect Giancarlo de Carlo has been designing and carrying out a master plan to revitalize the historic city of Urbino (Italy) and the University of Urbino. A convent built in the 16th century was converted to a new law school. (MLF)

Giancarlo de Carlo designed a low-income housing project and an art school to symbolically terminate town expansion along a ridge north of the walled city of Urbino (Italy). (Author/MLF)

School of education facilities at the University of Urbino (Italy), originally an 18th-century convent and chapel, are organized around an open courtyard and a semicircular lecture-theatre hall. Open to the community are the theater, a cinema, and a cafe. (MLF)