Angelo Mangiarotti, timeline

1921 — Angelo Mangiarotti is born in

Milan on 26 February.

1948 — Graduates in Architecture from

the Milan Polytechnic.

1953/54 — Lives in the United States,

where he meets the great

representatives of modern architecture:

Wright, Gropius, Mies van der Rohe and

Wachsmann. He is Visiting Professor

at the ITT Institute of Design of Chicago.

1955 — Returns to Milan and opens a

studio with Bruno Morassutti with whom

he collaborates until 1960.

1957 — Mater Misericordiae Church

built in Baranzate.

1960 — The famous house in Via

Quadronno, Milan is completed.

1962 — Splügen Braü industrial

warehouse built in Mestre.

1963 — Exhibition Pavilion built at Fiera

del Mare, Genova.

1964 — Starts collaboration with some

of the most important design

manufacturers: Artemide, Cassina,

Danese, Knoll, Poltronova, Vistosi.

1971 — The ‘Eros’ range of marble tables

with gravity joints is launched.

1974 — Visiting Professorship at École

Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne.

1978 — Snaidero and Majani office

buildings in Friuli completed. Designs

the ‘Incas’ range of pietra serena tables.

1979 — The ‘Eccentrico’ table takes

research into gravity joints to its

furthest point.

1982 — Begins designing and building

‘Rogoredo’ and ‘Certosa’ railway

stations, ‘Repubblica’ and ‘Venezia’

stations and the Passante Ferroviario

rail link, one of the most significant

public infrastructure works completed

in Milan over the past fifty years.

1983 — ‘The idea of spontaneity in

Industrial Architecture’ exhibition and

conference at Centre Pompidou, Paris.

1986 — Becomes art director of Colle

crystalware factory, a collaboration

which will result in several hundred

projects, among them the famous

‘Ice Stopper’ glass.

1987 — ‘Cono-Cielo’ is produced,

a structure/sculpture made entirely

from marble.

1989 — Establishes ‘Mangiarotti

& Associates’ studio in Tokyo.

1994 — Awarded the ‘Compasso d’Oro’

for a lifetime achievement and the

‘Marble Architectural Award’.

1998 — Receives a Honorary Degree

in Engineering from Technische

Universität, Munich.

2000 — The ‘Sant’Anna Massacre’

monument dedicated to the victims

of the Nazi- Fascist massacre at

Stazzema opens on 25 April.

2002 — ‘Angelo Mangiarotti.

Architecture Design Sculpture’

retrospective opens at the Milan

Triennale. Receives Honorary Degree

in Industrial Design from the Milan

Polytechnic.

2003 — Starts collaborating with Agape

with the ‘Lito’ range of washbasins.

2004 ‘Angelo Mangiarotti’ retrospective

at Gallery-MA, Tokyo.

2009 — ‘Angelo Mangiarotti. Sculpting/

Building’ retrospective at Casa del

Mantegna, Mantova.

2010 — Launch of the ‘Mangiarotti

Collection’ for the new AgapeCasa

trademark.

2012 — Angelo Mangiarotti dies at

Milano on 30 June.

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Angelo Mangiarotti: a portrait