What is Rafael Calventi?
[[File:Arq. Rafael Calventi.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Calventi in August 2011]] '''Rafael Calventi Gaviño''' (18 March 1932 - 19 August 2018) was a [[Dominica]]n architect and [[Diplomacy|diplomat]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Caribbean Modernist Architecture|isbn = 9780870707759|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CgI9cMHsSPIC&dq=rafael+calventi+architect&pg=PP4|last1 = Moré|first1 = Gustavo Luis|year = 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://intec.edu.do/regentes/miembros/ex-regentes/item/rafael-calventi |title=Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo - Junta de Regentes - Rafael Calventi |access-date=2018-08-20 |archive-date=2014-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006075714/http://intec.edu.do/regentes/miembros/ex-regentes/item/rafael-calventi |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was born in [[La Vega, Dominican Republic|La Vega]], Dominica. In 1996 he joined the Dominican diplomatic corps and was the ambassador to [[Italy]], [[Mexico]], [[Argentina]] and [[Germany]]. Calventi was deputy Director of the Office of the National District of [[Urban planning|Urban Planning]] and Design Chief of the Directorate of Buildings in the Ministry of Public Works and Communications of the [[Dominican Republic]] (SEOPEC). Calventi was the first director of the Dominican School of Architecture, between 1966 and 1968. There he was a professor of Architectural Composition and Theory of Architecture. He was also one of the founders of the Technological Institute of Santo Domingo (INTEC) in the 1972. Calventi died in [[Berlin]] on 19 August 2018 from a [[heart attack]], aged 86.<ref>[https://diariodominicano.com/dominicana-hoy/2018/08/19/273073/fallece-rafael-calventi-gavino- Dominican architect and diplomat] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820140848/https://diariodominicano.com/dominicana-hoy/2018/08/19/273073/fallece-rafael-calventi-gavino- |date=2018-08-20 }} {{in lang|es}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Calventi, Rafael}} [[Category:1932 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]]