Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani Prof. Dr. Ing. Architect Born in Rome

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Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani
Prof. Dr. Ing. Architect
Born in Rome in 1951, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani is an internationally
renowned architect and scholar. He has studied at Rome and Stuttgart
University and has taken a doctorate in architecture in both Universities.
He is a member of the Baden-Württemberg Institute for Architects, the
Deutscher Werkbund, the Bund Deutscher Architekten, the Bund
Schweizer Architekten.
He has taken and still takes part in many panels for architecture competitions and prizes: among them
the Praemium Imperiale, Tokyo (consultant); the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture,
Barcelona (chairman) and the Green Prize for Urban Planning, Harvard University. He was member of
the Architecture advisory board of the Deutsche Bank, of the Scientific advisory boards of the
Triennale di Milano and the Musée d’Architecture Français in Paris, of the Scientific advisory board of
the Collegium Helveticum and of the Swiss Science and Technology Council.
He is also member of the Internationale Bauakademie Berlin, the Novartis Campus Steering Comittee,
Basel, the commission “Kunst am Bau”, ETH Zurich, and of the advisory board of the Denklabor
Villa Garbald in the canton Grisons (Bergell).
He has taught at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, at the International Summer
School of Fine Arts in Salzburg, at the State University of Fine Arts in Frankfurt, at the School of
Architecture of the University of Navarra in Pamplona, at the Faculty of Architecture at the Politecnico
in Milan, and has been dean of faculty at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He now
teaches History and Theory of Architecture at the ETH in Zurich.
Since 2002 he has been director of the postgraduate program “Urban Forms. Conditions and
Consequences”. In 2005 he was founding director (with Uberto Siola) of the Scuola superiore di
architettura urbana in Naples.
He has been editor or member of the editorial committee of many important architecture magazines,
such as Casabella, Domus, Lotus, The Harvard Design Magazine.
Main Exhibitions
1984 – “The adventure of ideas in architecture 1750-1980” at the New National Gallery of Berlin (1985
under the title “L’avventura delle idee nell’architettura 1750-1980” at the Milan Triennale).
1987 – “Le città immaginate: un viaggio in Italia” (Imagined cities: a journey through Italy), mounted in
the Triennale as well (with Vittorio Savi).
1990-95 – Director of the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main; with numerous
exhibitions, symposia, conference series
1994 – “Rinascimento. Da Brunelleschi a Michelangelo: La rappresentazione dell'architettura” in
Palazzo Grassi in Venice (with Henry Millon). In 1995-96 the exhibition was shown at the National
Gallery, Washington D.C., at the Musée des monuments historiques, Paris, and at the Altes Museum,
Berlin.
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Since 1980 Prof. Magnago Lampugnani has held his own architectural practice: first in Berlin, then in
Milan. Among his most important projects:
office building in Block 109, Berlin (1991-1996), with Marlene Dörrie;
housing group in Maria Lankowitz near Graz (1995-1999) with Marlene Dörrie and Michael Regner;
entrance square of the Audi factory, Ingolstadt (1999-2001), with Wolfgang Weinzierl;
urban design planning of Novartis Campus in St. Johann, Basel, (2001 ff);
underground station Mergellina, Naples (2004ff);
reshaping of the Donau banks, Regensburg (2004 ff), with Wolfgang Weinzierl and others;
office building Fabrikstrasse 12, Novartis Campus, Basel (2005-2008);
master plan and residential block Richti quartier, Wallisellen (2007 ff).
His most important architectural publications have all been translated into several languages.
Available in English are:
Architecture of the 20th century in drawings, Rizzoli international, New York 1982;
Architecture and city planning in the 20th century, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York 1985;
Encyclopaedia of 20th century architecture, Harry N. Abrams, New York 1986;
Museum Architecture in Frankfurt 1980 - 1990, Prestel, Munich 1990;
Museums for a New Millenium. Concepts, Projects, Buildings (Prestel, 1999), with Angeli Sachs;
Novartis Campus. A Contemporary Work Environment. Premises, Elements, Perspectives, (Hatje Cantz Verlag,
Ostfildern, 2009).
Recent and upcoming titles
Prof. Magnago Lampugnani is working on L’architettura della città nel XX. Secolo, an important study
about the European and American city of the 20th century in its architectonic dimension. Forma Urbis is
shown in its topographical, climatic, political, economical and technical conditions, and in the context
of different theories and cultures. At its core, this study focuses on the urban as a physical
manifestation, an artifact which is drawn, and built.
The book, generously illustrated, has been published in autumn 2010 (Wagenbach, HC, 2 vol.).
His latest titles areVerhaltene Geschwindigkeit. Die Zukunft der telematischen Stadt
(meaning: Captured Quickness. The Future of the Telematic City), published in
Germany by Wagenbach Verlag. You may find a brief overview of the title on
the publisher's website: http://tinyurl.com/nb794y (German text)
Die Modernität des Dauerhaften (meaning: Modernity and Duration), published in
Germany by Wagenbach and in Italy by Skirà, is a reflection on the concept of
"Modern", turning upside down its social, technological and aesthetical aims
while advocating a critic use of technology.
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