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Perugia. Thesis “Restauro della Villa Fabar” (Restoration of the Villa Fabar). Partner of Elena Trotta, a prom-
inent Venezuelan architect. She also studied Urban Planning at the Politecnico di Milano. She has worked as
an architectural designer, and has worked on prestigious projects such as the National Conservatory of Music
in Santo Domingo, together with Pedro Haché.
Yudelka Czech (December 6, 1964).
Istituto Lorenzo di Medici, 1988 - 1997. She took courses in art
history, interior design, and architecture. She began her architecture studies and obtained her degree at the
PUCMM in Santiago de los Caballeros. Later, already in Florence, she married and developed a fruitful ap-
prenticeship that, due to her enormous talent and great curiosity, has made her one of the most important
interior architects in the Dominican Republic.
Gustavo Ubrí (February 2, 1957).
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Centro Studi Restauro Monumenti e
Centri Storici, 1989. Collegio degli Ingegneri della Toscana campus. Italian Language Course for Foreigners in
Perugia. He later went to the city of Fermo to study language. He completed a group thesis as was customary
in this course. He has been an official of the OPM and a university professor.
Italy in the Twenty-First Century
Milan: The Third Node
Academia and the Local Professional Practice
In the last two decades, Italy has witnessed a noteworthy process of revitalization in its urban centers. Un-
doubtedly, the epicenter of this movement is the metropolis of Milan, a dynamic European city of great
allure, which has carried out various programs, both for the restoration of its architecture and historic
districts and for new works, some of them internationally recognized, which also incorporate urban sus-
tainability programs. Milan has prepared itself to receive large influxes of tourists—as in all of Italy—and,
consequently, to serve as a venue for new architecture students who come to the renowned Politecnico di
Milan to train and specialize.
In terms of new architecture, Italy has always worked on a smaller scale when compared to countries like Ger-
many, England or Spain. The efforts seem to be concentrated on the restoration and new use of historical struc-
tures in arrangements with pieces of beautiful workmanship, thanks to the extraordinary domain of Italian design.
It is precisely in this domain that Milan has welcomed a new generation of young interior designers, who
attend recently established schools of remarkable quality, such as the Scuola Politécnica di Design, the Domus
Academy, the Istituto Marangoni, or the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti.
Meanwhile, several schools of architecture continue to operate in the Dominican Republic, and at least
UNPHU and UNIBE offer well-reputed interior design programs. It is still difficult to enter into a specializa-
tion, graduate or master’s degree program locally. The PUCMM and UNPHU have somehow, and with some
hesitation, managed to become the academic institutions that offer these courses, sometimes affiliated with
foreign academies. Nonetheless, it is still important to think about traveling abroad to specialize. Italy contin-
ues to be a very worthwhile alternative, not only because of the quality of its programs, but also because of
the relative simplicity of the registration procedures for foreigners and the low cost.
Richard Moreta (January 27, 1964).
Università degli Studi di Milano, and NABA 2002-2004. Master’s de-
gree in Architecture and Design “Futurarium.” Graduate research program in architecture and design. Thesis:
“Miniloop (Architecture) / Lips.” Professors: Alessandro Guerriero, Ettore Sottsass, Alessandro Mendini, Gio-
vanni Sacchi, Antonio Riello, Cinzia Ruggeri, Clara Mantica, Luigi Serafini, Mario Consiglio, Claudio Cetina,
Luigi Benardi, Occhiomagico, and Umberto Eco. Courses: Master’s degree in European Urban Studies and
PhD Program (Candidate) Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany (2014). Master’s degree in Global Public
Policy, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economics and Public Administration, Moscow (2018). He
currently works in Miami.
THE ITALIAN TRAINING OF MODERN DOMINICAN ARCHITECTS, 1950 - 2019