Italian architect and designer
Angelo Mangiarotti was born in Milan, Italy, on 26 February 1921 and graduated as an architect from the Politecnico there in 1948. In 1953/54, as a visiting professor at the Institute of Design of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago in the USA, he took part in the competition to design the Loop. During this period, he met the architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe in the USA.
Back in Europe, he opened an architecture practice in Milan with Bruno Morassutti in 1955. In the decades that followed, he held visiting professorships in places including Hawaii, Lausanne in Switzerland, Adelaide in Australia and Milan. In 1989, together with Japanese partners, he founded Mangiarotti & Associates Office in Tokyo, Japan. His achievements as an architect and product designer were honoured with numerous international awards, such as the Domus Formica Award and the Compasso d'Oro for his career. Mangiarotti died in Milan on 30 June 2012.
