Vittorio Gregotti

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Vittorio Gregotti (1975)

Vittorio Gregotti (born August 10, 1927 in Novara , Piedmont ; † March 15, 2020 in Milan ) was an Italian architect and designer . He was considered one of the last protagonists of Italian rationalism .

Life

Vittorio Gregotti studied architecture at the Milan Polytechnic , especially with Ernesto Nathan Rogers . As a student he worked in Auguste Perret's Paris office. In 1951 he was a participant in the architecture congress "The Heart of the City" of the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) . In 1952 he opened his own Gregotti Associati studio ; In 1974 he founded Gregotti International in Milan with Pierluigi Carri, Augusto Cagnardi and Hiromichi Matsui . In addition to buildings, designs for furniture and lamps were also implemented. He was professor of design at the Università Iuav di Venezia and the architecture faculties in Milan and Palermo and the International Academy of Architecture in Sofia. He was visiting professor in Tokyo, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Lausanne, Harvard, Philadelphia, Princeton, Cambridge (UK) and at MIT in Cambridge (USA).

Gregotti and his office Gregotti Associati planned, among other things, the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona , the Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon , the Teatro degli Arcimboldi in Milan, the Bicocca district in Milan, the Cannaregio houses in Venice, the gatehouses in Berlin's Lützowstrasse, the Parisian Concert hall “La Gaîté de Paris”, the headquarters of Air France in Montreuil near Paris, the Guggenheim Museum in Venice and numerous universities, most recently the University of Calabria in Cosenza .

One of the major urban planning plans was the new square city with a total area of ​​over 15 km² in Pujiang (Shanghai) . A 2.6 km² section in the north of the city was designed with garden villas , an Italian palace and a piazza with a bell tower .

He was responsible for the introductory section of the XIII. Triennial in Milan (1964) which won the International Grand Prix. From 1974 to 1976 he was director of the Fine Arts and Architecture section of the Biennale di Venezia. At the Triennale di Milano in 2012 he was awarded the Medaglia d'Oro alla Carriera. From 1979 to 1998 he was director of the art magazine Rassegna , from 1981 to 1996 editor of the architecture magazine Casabella and editor of Lotus International . He has published numerous articles in various newspapers such as Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica and has written several books. He was a member of the Accademia di San Luca since 1976 and of the Accademia di Brera since 1995 . In 2000 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic for his work . He received honorary doctorates from the universities in Prague (1996), Bucharest (1999) and Porto (2003). The Manfredo Tafuri Prize of the Venice Architecture Biennale followed in 2006 and the Millennium Award of the Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa in 2007. In 1997 he became an honorary member of the Association of German Architects (BDA) and in 1999 of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) .

Gregotti died in March 2020 at the age of 92 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy as a result of a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

  • Olympic Stadium Barcelona (after renovation 2010)

  • Centro Cultural de Belém

  • Teatro degli Arcimboldi

  • University of Calabria

Fonts

  • New Directions in Italian Architecture , Littlehampton 1968
  • Questioni di Architettura , 1986
  • Dentro l'Architettura , 1991
  • Inside Architecture , The MIT Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-262-57115-9
  • Racconti di Archi tettura , 1998
  • Identità e Crisi dell'Architettura Europea , 1999
  • L'Architettura del Realismo Critico , 2004
  • Architecture, Means and Ends (Translation: Lydia Chochrane), University of Chicago Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-226-30758-9
  • Il territorio dell'architettura , Feltrinelli 2014, ISBN 978-8807884801 (first published in 1966)

Web links

Commons : Vittorio Gregotti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Marta Busnelli: The architecture of the discipline. Vittorio Gregotti turns 90 and closes his office. In: Baunetz. August 10, 2017, accessed March 15, 2020 .
  2. ^ A b Walter van de Star: Vittorio Gregotti: The Form of the Territory. In: OASE Journal for Architecture. 2009, pp. 7–21 , accessed on March 15, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ a b Vittorio Gregotti. In: IAA International Academy of Architecture. February 26, 2019, accessed March 15, 2020 .
  4. ^ Harry den Hartog: Shanghai New Towns: Searching for community and identity in a sprawling metropolis. 010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2010, ISBN 978-90-6450-735-9 , p. 148.
  5. ↑ Charlie QL Xue, Minghao Zhou: Importation and adaptation: building one city and nine towns in Shanghai: a case study of Vittorio Gregotti's plan of Pujiang Town . In: Palgrave Macmillan (Ed.): Urban Design International . tape 12 , 2007, p. 28-33 . Harry den Hartog: Shanghai New Towns: Searching for community and identity in a sprawling metropolis. 010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2010, ISBN 978-90-6450-735-9 , p. 152. Michele Bonino, Filippo De Pieri: Shanghai tricolore: Alle porte della metropoli cinese nasce una nuova città. E parla italiano. In: Italicnews. March 7, 2012, archived from the original on April 18, 2012 ; Retrieved August 17, 2017 (Italian).

  6. ↑ Coronavirus: morto a Milano Vittorio Gregotti, maestro dell'architettura del Novecento. In: corriere.it . March 15, 2020, accessed March 15, 2020 (Italian).
  7. ↑ Niklas Maak : Once upon a time there was a place. In: faz.net. March 16, 2020, accessed March 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gregotti, Vittorio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect and designer
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Novara , Piedmont
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 2020
Place of death Milan