Bernardo Secchi graduated in 1959 at the Milan Polytechnic under prof. Giovanni Muzio, in 1960 he became assistant of the same prof. Muzio at the chair of Urbanistics Faculty of Engineering, Milan Polytechnic. Meanwhile, he was appointed member of the Scientific Committee of the Intercommunal Plan for the Milan area and head of the technical office of the selfsame plan, and following that, head of research at the Lombard institute of Economic and Social Studies (Lses).
In 1965 he was appointed professor of Territorial Economy, first at the Faculty of Economics of Ancona, and following that, at the Venice University Institute of Architecture. At the same time he worked with prof. Giuseppe Samon¨¤ on the study for the plan for the Province of Trento and studied the plan for the Valle d'Aosta. Since 1974 he has been full professor of Urbanistics (Town planning and design); up to 1984 at the Milan Faculty of Architecture, where he was Principal from 1976 al 1982; from 1984 at the Venice University Institute of Architecture degree course in Architecture. Since 1986 he has also taught at the ˇ°Ecole d'Architecture de G¨¨n¨¨veˇ±. In the years following that he held seminars and courses at the same institute, at the University of Leuven, at the Federal Polytechnic of Zurich, at the Paris Institute of Urbanism and at the Ecole dˇŻArchitecture de Rennes. He received in 2004 the doctorat honoris causa by the Universit¨¦ Mend¨¨es France of Grenoble ( France).
He has designed public building quarters including the Plan for Economical and Popular Building at Vicenza, and was commissioned to draw up study for the recovery of the S¨¨cheron industrial area at Geneva (1989), a study for the plan of Rovereto (1992); he drew up the plan for renovation of a small center close to Prato (1988-1992), he designed a carpark-park in the area of Porta Torricella at Ascoli Piceno.
He won (1990) the competition for planning Hoog Kortrijk ( Belgium) where he was invited to take part along with other European urbanists and architects; he drew up the study for the plan of the city of Kortrijk (1991) and in particular developed the projects of the Great Square and the new Cemetery of the selfsame town. He took part as planning consultant and won the Ecopolis competition for the project of a new city in Ukraine (group directed by Vittorio Gregotti, 1993). Working with others he won the competition "Roma citt¨¤ del Tevere" (1993), project for work on the riverbank. Together with others he won the competition for the planning of Airport zone (Rectangle d'or) of Geneva (1996). Recently (2003) he won, with Paola Vigan¨°, the international competition for Spoornoord in Antwerp, the international competition for Ville-Port in S. Nazaire ( France) and the competition for La Courrouze-Rennes (France). In 2004 he won, with Paola Vigan¨°, the competition for the Theatre Plein in Antwerp. He has been "urbaniste conseil" (since 1996) for the ˇ°Etablissement public Euromediterran¨¦eˇ± for the planning of the central and port areas of Marseilles. He has been consultant since 1996 to the Genoa port Authorities for the drawing up of the general plan for the port. In 2004 he received an honoris causa doctorate by the Universit¨¦ Mend¨¨s-France in Grenoble and the special prize of the Jury of the Grand Prix dˇŻUrbanisme et de lˇŻArt Urbaine ¨¤ Paris.
He was a founder member and member of the editorial body of the Urban and Regional Study Archives: since 1982 he has been cooperating with continuity with the magazine Casabella and from 1984 to 1990 he directed Urbanistica. He has organized numerous planning competitions among which "the Bicocca project", Milan; "Community buildings", Salerno and has been part of numerous juries for architectural and urbanistic competitions.
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