Italian architectural historian. Zevi studied under Gropius and Breuer at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. In 1942, he wrote to Breuer hoping for a job working on a defense housing project in Wethersfield, CT. After returning to Italy in 1945, Zevi published a number of books on architecture, including "Verso l'architettura organica" (Towards Organic Architecture) and "Saper Vedere la Città" (How To Understand The City). Zevi was among the most influential architectural historians of his generation, teaching first at the Venice School of Architecture and then at Rome University. He was also an outspoken critic, taking issue with, among many other things, the bombastic fascist architecture of the Mussolini era.