Michelangelo Pistoletto was born in Biella in 1933. He began to exhibit his work in 1955 and in 1960 he had his first solo show at Galleria Galatea in Turin. An inquiry into self-portraiture characterizes his early work. In the two-year period 1961-1962 made the first Mirror Paintings, which directly include the viewer and real [...]
The group is composed by the architects Giacomo Ortenzi (1984), Laura Pedata (1976), Loris Rossi (1976), with different but complementary skills and experiences in both the academic and professional field. Starting with the experience in establishing the Architecture office ungroup, and passing by cooperation with Architecture offices such as DBC Odile Decq-Benoit Cornette, Ma0 (emmeazero) [...]
Graduated in Architecture at Federal Polytechnic Institute of Zurich (ETHZ), Bruno Reichlin was assistant to Giovanni K. Köning at University of Florence from 1969 at 1970 and to Aldo Rossi at ETHZ from 1972 to 1974. He was scientific collaborator at Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur of Federal Polytechnic Institute of Zurich (1983-1984), [...]
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld was born in Utrecht in 1888 and while still a child moved with his family to Poortstraat where his father opened a carpentry workshop. Having completed his elementary schooling, Gerrit began working in his father’s workshop, but a few years later his desire for an artistic education led him to return to [...]
A Finnish architect and artist, Sami Rintala studied architecture in Helsinki. Together with his partner Marco Casagrande he created a series of architectural sculptures that were featured in numerous exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale.
These works presented a critical view of society, nature and the role of the architect in contemporary civilization. In 2007 he opened [...]
Photographer and architect, Luciano Romano (Naples, 1958) began taking photographs for the theatre and while he soon moved into other sectors this imprinting had a significant effect on his later work dealing with architecture, landscape and urban space: “Theatre and photography have much in common because, for example, within the circumscribed space of the frame [...]
In 1959, Aldo Rossi graduated in architecture from the Polytechnic in Milan, his hometown. In 1955 he had already begun to work as one of the editors of the “Casabella-continuità” magazine and he also collaborated with other periodicals including “Società” and ”Contemporaneo”. By 1956 he had started his architectural design career working alongside Ignazio Gardella [...]