Vittorio gregotti biography

Born in Novara on 10 August , architect, urban planner and architecture theorist Vittorio Gregotti passed away on Sunday morning in Milan following the consequences of pneumonia. Vittorio Gregotti at the Venice Biennale in Venice After studying under professor Ernesto Nathan Rogers he has founded his studio Gregotti Associati in Theorist and professor at the Politecnico di Milano received the gold medal for his career at the Triennale di Milano in With more than 60 years of professional practice as an architect he was as well a director of the Casabella between and He was an incredibly nice and charming man though.

I will never forget how he defended his design for the centennial le Corbusier exhibition in in the Centre Pompidou, which was curated by Bruno Reichlin.

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The enormous undertaking was also possible because Jean Louis Cohen was one of the first to have a small Apple Macintosh computer, in which every little piece exhibited was archived. Gregotti had laid out he complete top floor with crosses of walls, all equal in size. So what would normally be a closed wall with maybe a door in it, now consisted of two walls with an empty space in between.

There were four of those in every space. Of course, every curator who did a part or parts of the show I did the piece on the Poeme Electronique and a slide show on the Synthese des Arts demanded a special design for his or her contribution and they all had good reasons. Gregotti patiently explained to each and every one of them that actually it was completely possible to realise all their demands in his structure.

They all accepted, and there were some very good architects and architectural historians among the curators that would normally get their way. I was very impressed.