Arduino Cantafora (born November 8, 1945, in

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

), Italian-Swiss architect, painter, and writer. He was the student of Aldo Rossi

Biography

Graduated at the Politecnico di Milano, he became renowned for his paintings with Renaissance influence, inspired by

Giorgio de Chirico Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico ( , ; 10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the '' scuola metafisica'' art movement, which profoundly influ ...

. He became acquainted with

Aldo Rossi Aldo Rossi (3 May 1931 – 4 September 1997) was an Italian architect and designer who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: architectural theory, drawing and design and also product design. He was one of the leading exponen ...

, of whom he was a pupil. In the 1990s, he designed scenery for operas: ''Perseus and Andromeda'' at La Scala (1991) and Mozart's ''

Don Giovanni ''Don Giovanni'' (; K. 527; Vienna (1788) title: , literally ''The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni'') is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanis ...

'' in Aix-en-Provence (1993). He has taught at Yale University, IUAV, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). He is naturalized as a Swiss citizen.

Publications

* ''Quindici stanze per una casa'' (1988) * ''La pomme d'Adrien'' (2002) * ''Le stanze della vita'' (2004) * ''L'architecture du corps'' (2006, with Charles Duboux)L'architecture du corps (FNAC)
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