Angelo Mangiarotti Description

Angelo Mangiarotti was born in 1921 in Milan and graduated there in 1948 at the Polytechnic University as an architect. In 1953/54 he attented at the competition for the designing of Loop as guest professor of the Design Institute of the Illionois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Whilke this period he met Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe in the USA.

Back in Europe he opened in 1955 his own office in Milan. In the following centuries he assumed guest professors from Hawaii, in Lausanne, Adelaide and in Milan. In 1989 he founded in Mangiarotti & Associates Office in Tokio in cooperation with his partners. His benefits as architect and as product designer were awarded with many international prizes.