Saul Greco

Saul Greco (6 December 1910 – 16 December 1971) was an Italian architect and urban planner.

Life and career Greco graduated in architecture in Naples in 1938. During World War II, he served in the military engineering corps, specifically in the bridge-building and railway engineering divisions. Coming from an anti-fascist family—his brother Mario was executed by fascists in 1944—Greco waited for the liberation before joining the University of Naples, where he became a tenured assistant to Marcello Canino in the Chair of Architectural Elements, a position he held until 1964.

After obtaining his teaching license in Architectural Composition and Spatial Planning in 1958, he was invited to Rome by Pasquale Carbonara. That same year, he won the competition for the Chair of Technical Architecture at the Faculty of Engineering in Bari. In 1961, he was appointed full professor and took over the Chair of Construction Elements at the Faculty of Architecture in Rome, also leading the institute of the same name. He was later appointed director of the Central Library.