Giovanni Michelucci (1891–1990) was an Italian architect, urban planner and designer. Born in Pistoia into a family that ran an iron workshop, he graduated from Florence's Higher Institute of Architecture in 1911 and became dean of the Florence architecture faculty in 1944, moving to the engineering faculty in Bologna in 1948. Much of his later work, from housing and churches to prisons and hospitals, grew from his idea of an open, democratic "New City", and in 1982 he set up a foundation for research on the city.
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As coordinator of the Gruppo Toscano he won the 1933 competition for Firenze Santa Maria Novella Station (1935), acclaimed internationally for its rational, functional design and for how it fits its historic setting. The Church of the Autostrada del Sole (1964) at Campi Bisenzio, built to honour the workers who died building the motorway, sets a cross plan and stone walls under a tent-like copper roof. After the Vajont Dam disaster of 1963 destroyed Longarone, he designed the town's new church, Santa Maria Immacolata, Longarone (1983), on the site of the old one.
