Cristiano Toraldo di Francia
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Cristiano Toraldo di Francia (18 September 1941 – 30 July 2019) was an Italian architect, designer, and educator. He is the son of Giuliano Toraldo di Francia.
After graduating in architecture he founded Superstudio in 1966, together with Adolfo Natalini. Superstudio ceased working as a collective in 1978.
In 1973, at the peak of Superstudio's production, he started, together with Adolfo Natalini, the Architecture program at California State University in Florence. Thus began a didactic experience that, in this school, would last almost thirty years.
At the beginning of the 1990s, Cristiano Toraldo di Francia moved from Florence to the Marche region and started a series of initiatives aimed at comparing American and Italian design cultures. In particular, the "Filottrano Workshops" (since 1992) established a bridge between Tuscany and the Marche region for generations of architecture students from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Cal Poly Pomona who were studying abroad at California State University program in Florence.
He was, until his retirement due to age limits, Professor in the Faculty of Architecture (now School of Architecture and Design "Eduardo Vittoria") of the University of Camerino, based in the city of Ascoli Piceno, since its founding in 1993.
