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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
Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to 1890, the present name was adopted upon the merger of the Armour Institute and Lewis Institute in 1940. The university has prog ...
. 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 ...
,
Walter Gropius
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in conne ...
,
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( ; ; born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. Along with Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd ...
and
Konrad Wachsmann
Konrad Wachsmann (May 16, 1901 in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany – November 25, 1980 in Los Angeles, California) was a German modernist architect. He is notable for his contribution to the mass production of building components.
Originally appre ...
.
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
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 ...
. 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
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.
He died in Milan on 2 July 2012.
Work
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His architectural work included many industrial buildings, among them projects in
Padova
Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the ...
in 1959, in
Marcianise
Marcianise is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Caserta, Campania, southern Italy.
History
In the area of the commune of Marcianise numerous tombs of Etruscan and Roman age have been excavated, although Oscan elements should have pre-exist ...
and in
Mestre
Mestre () is a borough of the ''comune'' (municipality) of Venice, on the mainland opposite the historical island city in the region of Veneto, Italy.
Administratively, Mestre forms (together with the nearby Carpenedo) the ''Municipalità di ...
in 1962, in
Monza
Monza (, ; lmo, label=Lombard language, Lombard, Monça, locally ; lat, Modoetia) is a city and ''comune'' on the River Lambro, a tributary of the Po River, Po in the Lombardy region of Italy, about north-northeast of Milan. It is the capit ...
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
Ferrovie dello Stato
Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane S.p.A. ( "Italian Railways of the State"; previously only Ferrovie dello Stato, hence the abbreviation FS) is Italy's national state-owned railway holding company that manages transport, infrastructure, real estat ...
between 1982 and 1988, and the
Porta Venezia
Porta Venezia (formerly known as Porta Orientale, Porta Renza and by other names) is one of the historical gates of the city of Milan, Italy. In its present form, the gate dates back to the 19th century; nevertheless, its origins can be traced bac ...
and
Repubblica Repubblica ( Republic in Italian) may refer to:
*''La Repubblica'', an Italian newspaper
*Repubblica (Milan Metro), a rail station in Milan, Italy
*Milano Repubblica railway station, a station on the Milan Passante railway
*Repubblica (fictional co ...
stations on the
Passante Ferroviario di Milano
The Passante Ferroviario di Milano is an underground railway which runs through Milan, Italy.
The first part was opened in 1997 and was completed in 2008.[Majano
Majano ( fur, Maian) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste and about northwest of Udine.
Majano borders the following municipalities: Buja, Colloredo di Monte Albano ...]
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Friuli-Venezia Giulia
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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.
References
Further reading
* Various Authors, "Maestri del Design. Castiglioni, Magistretti, Mangiarotti, Mendini, Sottsass", Bruno Mondadori, 2005
* Toto – Gallery MA, "Angelo Mangiarotti, un percorso-MA-un incontro", Tokyo, 2004
* Beppe Finessi, "su Mangiarotti – architettura, design, scultura", Abitare Segesta Cataloghi, 2002
* Luciano Caramel, "Il DNA della scultura. Angelo Mangiarotti", Internazionale Marmi e Macchine Carrara, 1999
* Francois Burkhardt, "L'aspetto artistico nell'opera di Mangiarotti", Domus, n.807, September 1998, pp. 104–110
* Thomas Herzog (Ed.), "Bausysteme von Angelo Mangiarotti", Verlag Das Beispiel GmbH, Darmstadt, 1998
* Guido Nardi, "Angelo Mangiarotti", Maggioli Editore, Rimini, 1997
* Enrico D. Bona, "Mangiarotti", Sagep, Genova, 1988
* Angelo Mangiarotti, M.Luchi, L.Bonesio, L.Magnani, "In nome dell'architettura", Jaca Book, Milano, 1987
* Enrico D. Bona, "Angelo Mangiarotti: il processo del costruire", Electa, Milano, 1980
* Ichiro Kawahara, "Angelo Mangiarotti 1955–1964", Seidoh-Sya Publishing Co., Tokyo, 1964
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1921 births
2012 deaths
Illinois Institute of Technology faculty
20th-century Italian architects
Italian industrial designers
Architects from Milan
Polytechnic University of Milan alumni
Polytechnic University of Milan faculty
Compasso d'Oro Award recipients