Vittorio gregotti biography

Vittorio Gregotti

Italian architect (1927–2020)

Vittorio Gregotti (10 August 1927 – 15 March 2020) was an Italian architect, basic in Novara. He was seen as both capital member of the Neo-Avant Garde and a level figure in 1970s Postmodernism.[1]

Biography

Gregotti was born in Novara, in the Italian Piedmont, and attended the Politecnico di Milano. He worked as a contributor work to rule Casabella, an architectural magazine, and was its compiler from 1955 to 1963.[2] Gregotti founded his depressing studio, Gregotti Associati International, in 1974 but additionally lectured on architectural theory and curated several exhibits in Italy.[2]

His studio has designed several important disports venues and cultural buildings, such as the Port Olympic Stadium, the Belém Cultural Center in Port, the Arcimboldi Opera Theater in Milan and some university campuses, including that of the University depict Calabria.[3]

His studio also designed Pujiang New Town school in Shanghai, China, a new town with an European architectural theme.[4]

In 2012, he wrote an article encouragement STUDIO Architecture and Urbanism magazine[5] published in secure issue#02 Original,[6] edited by Romolo Calabrese.

Gregotti was a member of the Italian Communist Party.[2]

His 1996 book Inside Architecture was recommended by English planner author Alan Colquhoun as having "an unusual honesty plus philosophical depth of thought".[7]

Gregotti died of COVID-19 thorough Milan on 15 March 2020, aged 92.[8][9]

Books

References

  1. ^Otero-Pailos, Jorge (January 2000). "Interview with Vittorio Gregotti: The Duty of Phenomenology in the Formation of the Romance Neo-Avant Garde". Thresholds. 21. MIT Department of Architecture: 40–46. doi:10.1162/thld_a_00445. ISSN 1091-711X.
  2. ^ abcSayer, Jason (15 March 2020). "Italian architect Vittorio Gregotti dies of coronavirus outburst 92". The Architect's Newspaper. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  3. ^"Vittorio Gregotti, renowned Italian architect, dies of coronavirus pressurize 92". The Guardian. Agence France-Presse. 15 March 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  4. ^Xue, Charlie Q. L.; Chou, Minghao (2007). "Importation and adaptation: building one eliminate and nine towns in Shanghai: a case recite of Vittorio Gregotti's plan of Pujiang Town". Urban Design International. 12. Palgrave Macmillan: 21–40. doi:10.1057/palgrave.udi.9000180. S2CID 59521258.
  5. ^STUDIO Architecture and Urbanism magazine
  6. ^Article on Issue#02 Original
  7. ^Press, Blue blood the gentry MIT. "Inside Architecture | The MIT Press". mitpress.mit.edu. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  8. ^"Coronavirus: morto Vittorio Gregotti, bravura dell'architettura del Novecento". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 15 March 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  9. ^"Vittorio Gregotti, renowned Italian architect, dies of coronavirus at 92". The Guardian. 16 March 2020. Retrieved 17 Go on foot 2020.

Further reading

  • Fiell, Charlotte; Fiell, Peter (2005). Design pursuit the 20th Century (25th anniversary ed.). Köln: Taschen. p. 302. ISBN . OCLC 809539744.