Noted Italian architect Pier Carlo Bontempi will deliver the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture's annual John Burgee Lecture at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in Bond Hall.

The Lecture is free and open to the public and will be followed by the opening of Expo Roma, an exhibition by fourth-year architecture students of work done last year in Rome. The Rome program is the third year of studies for all Notre Dame architecture students.

Bontempi, whose talk is titled "Architettura Famiglia," specializes in urban and architectural work consisting of conservatoin, restoration and reconstruction as well as new building of a traditional nature. He received the European Prize for Reconstruction in 1999 for his work on maintaining the regional architecture or Fornovo di Taro, the small town in which he was born.

A graduate of the University of Florence, Bontempi taught there from 1980-85. He also taught at the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in Paris, the Staatliche Akademie DerBildenden Kunst in Stuttgart, Germany, the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture, and in the Florence prgram of Syracuse University.

The John Burgee Lecture honors the renowned architect who is a 1956 Notre Dame alumnus and a University trustee.

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