Luigi Moretti (1907–1973) was an Italian architect from Rome, credited as an inventor of parametric architecture. He graduated with honours from the Royal School of Architecture in Rome in 1929 and in the 1930s became technical director of the Fascist youth organisation, designing its youth centres and the plan of the Foro Mussolini, now the Foro Italico. In 1945 he was arrested for his collaboration with fascism and briefly imprisoned. In 1957 he founded an institute to study "parametric" architecture, applying mathematical methods to design in a way that anticipated the use of computers.
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At the Foro he planned the Stadium of the Cypresses, which other architects later enlarged into the Stadio Olimpico (1953). The Casa del Girasole in Rome (1950) is seen as an early example of postmodern architecture. For the developer General Real Estate he designed the Tour de la Bourse in Montreal (1964), with Pier Luigi Nervi, briefly the tallest building in Canada, and the Watergate Complex in Washington, D.C. (1971), whose curved blocks later gave their name to the political scandal. Late work took him to Algeria, where he designed the Hôtel El Aurassi (1975).
