Massimo Scolari

Massimo Scolari (born March 31, 1943 in Novi Ligure ) is an Italian architect , painter and designer .

Massimo Scolari obtained his doctorate in architecture in Milan in 1969 . In 1973 he was professor of architectural history in Palermo and taught design at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV). Between 1975 and 1993 he was visiting professor at various universities, including Cornell University , the Cooper Union , the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies NY, the Vienna University of Technology, Harvard University , Cambridge. Since 2006 he has been Davenport Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture . He is editor of “Controspazio”, “Casabella”, “Lotus International”, director of “Eidos” (1989–1995) and the collection for architecture Franco Angeli (1973–1988).

Since 1989 he has designed furniture for Giorgetti, where he was artistic director until 2001, and products for Alessi . His works have been exhibited in Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States and are permanent exhibitions at MoMA (New York), the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (Frankfurt) and the Center Pompidou (Paris). He designed installations at the Venice Biennale in 1980, 1984, 1991, 1996 and 2004 and at the Milan Triennale in 1973 and 1986. In 2001 he left the university. His representational studies have been published by Marsilio-Verlag in "Il disegno obliquo" (2005). In 2007 the Skira publishing house published a monograph on the occasion of its exhibition in the Museo Civico in Riva del Garda. In 2014 he is the recipient of the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York. Massimo Scolari lives in Venice.

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