Angelo Mangiarotti (26 February 1921 – 2 July 2012) was an Italian architect and industrial designer. His designs were mostly for industrial buildings and railway stations. In 1994 he received the Compasso d'Oro award of the

Associazione per il Disegno Industriale ADI (Associazione per il Disegno Industriale) is an association of about 1.100 designers, manufacturers, trade newspeople, schools and researchers on design based in Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the R ...

for his lifetime of achievement.

Life and work

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Mangiarotti was born in Milan in 1921. He studied architecture at the

Politecnico di Milano The Polytechnic University of Milan () is the largest technical university in Italy, with about 42,000 students. The university offers undergraduate, graduate and higher education courses in engineering, architecture and design. Founded in 186 ...

, graduating in 1948. In 1953 he was a visiting professor at the Design Institute of the

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. While in Chicago he came into contact with

Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements o ...

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and

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. From 1955 to 1960 he had an architectural and design studio in Milan in partnership with , and in 1965 was among the founding members of the

. He held a number of teaching positions, many of them outside Italy. In 1989 he established an architectural practice in Tokyo. In 1994 he received the Compasso d'Oro award of the

for his lifetime of achievement. He died in Milan on 2 July 2012.

Work

Milano - stazione ferroviaria di Milano Repubblica - scale

His architectural work included many industrial buildings, among them projects in

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in 1959, in

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and in

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in 1962, in

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in 1964, and in Cinisello Balsamo in 1973. He also designed a number of railway stations, among them the

Milano Certosa Milano Certosa is a surface railway station in Milan, Italy. The station is on the north-west part of the city between the Quarto Oggiaro and Musocco neighborhoods. Its name comes from the Certosa di Garegnano. The station is located on Via Anto ...

and Milano Rogoredo for the

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between 1982 and 1988, and the

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and

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stations on the

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in 1978, and the exhibition centre for the Internazionale Marmi e Macchine – the organisation behind the Fiera Internazionale Marmi e Macchine di Carrara trade fair – in 1992 and 1993.

Books

His book ''In nome dell'architettura'' was published by in Milan in 1987.

Life and work

Work

Books

References

Further reading