Luigi Walter Moretti was an Italian architect. Active especially in Italy from the 1930s, he designed buildings such as the Watergate Complex in Washington DC, The Academy of Fencing, and Il Girasole house, both in Rome. He was the founder of the Institute for Operations Research and Applied Mathematics Urbanism, where he developed his research on the history of architecture, and on the application of algorithmic methods to architectural design. He is recognized as the inventor of parametric architecture.
Luigi at his architect's desk in early 1973
Gioventù Italiana del Littorio (GIL, fascist youth organization) building in Trastevere, Rome, one of Moretti's notable early works
L'Accademia di scherma (Academy of Fencing) at Foro Mussolini, Rome (1936)
House "Il Girasole", Rome, 1948. Photo by Paolo Monti, 1951 (Paolo Monti Archive, BEIC)
The Watergate complex is a group of six buildings in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States. Covering a total of 10 acres just north of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the buildings include:Watergate West, cooperative apartments
Watergate 600, office building
Watergate Hotel
Watergate East, cooperative apartments
Watergate North, cooperative apartments
Watergate South, cooperative apartments
Watergate Office Building, the office building where the Watergate burglary happened
Aerial view of the Watergate complex in 2006
1905 photo of natural gas tanks at 26th & G Streets, NW, future site of the Watergate complex
The Chesepeake and Ohio canal terminus at milepost zero. The photo shows the remains of Waste Weir #1, and where the gravity dam used to be. The "Watergate West" building is in visible in the background.
Watergate steps