Mario Bellini is an internationally renowned architect and designer. He has received the coveted Compasso d'Oro eight times, along with other prestigious architecture awards such as the Medaglia d'Oro (2004), awarded by the President of Italy for services to promoting design and architecture worldwide, and the Ambrogino d'Oro (2011), awarded by the City of Milan for civic merit.
Mario Bellini has given lectures at many major cultural centres around the world and was editor of the well-known magazine Domus from 1985 to 1991.
25 of his works are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the USA, which even dedicated a solo retrospective to him in 1987. Mario Bellini has also taken part in countless art, design and architecture exhibitions in Italy and around the world.
Since the 1980s, Bellini has devoted himself almost exclusively to architecture. His most important building projects include the Portello trade fair district in Milan in Italy, Villa Erba in Cernobbio, the Tokyo Design Center in Japan, the Natuzzi Americas headquarters in the USA, Messe Essen in Germany, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne in Australia, the Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, the Verona Forum complex, the Museum of the History of Bologna and the Department of Islamic Arts at the Louvre in Paris in France.
