Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani

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Full Name	Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani
Occupation	Architect
Date Of Birth	Mar 5, 1951(1951-03-05)
Age	73
Birthplace	Rome
Country	Italy
Birth City	Lazio
Horoscope	Pisces

Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani Biography

Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani is one of the most popular and richest Architect who was born on March 5, 1951 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani (born 1951 located in Rome, Italy) is an architect, architect theorist, and architectural historian . He is also an emeritus professor of The History of Urban Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). He is a proponent of an formally disciplined particular to the site and ecologically sustainable type of architecture that is free of the postmodernist or modernist excesses. As the editor and author of numerous acclaimed works in theory and architectural history His ideas are often quoted.

From 1980 until 1984, Lampugnani served as a consultant for science at The International Building Exhibition Berlin (I.B.A.) for the development of new construction zones. The year was 1980 when Lampugnani established his first architectural business in Berlin first, and later in Milan (Studio of Architettura) and then at Zurich (Baukontor Architectural). One of his most significant projects:

These and other projects have been published in various monographs (Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Urban Architectures, Quart Verlag, 2006; Urban Design as Craft, gta Verlag, 2011) and in the most significant architecture magazines, amongst them Casabella, Domus and Lotus international, Milan, Arquitectura Viva, Madrid, and AMC (Architecture, Mouvement, Continuité), Paris. He was member of various jurys 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.

Since 1978, he has been a an active member since 1978, he is a member of the Baden-Wurttemberg Institute for Architects, since 1979, of the Deutscher Werkbund. The year 1987 saw Lampugnani received the recognized as a winner to him by the Comite International des Critiques d’Architecture. He has been a part since 1991 of the Association of German Architects, and, from 1995 in 1995, members of the Association of Swiss Architects. From 1992 until 1996, he was a member of the advisory board for architecture for the Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main. From 1999 to 2002 member of the advisory board for science from the Triennale die Milano and the Musee d’Architecture Francais in Paris. From 2000 until 2004 as a member of the advisory committee of Collegium Helveticum in Zurich, and also the Swiss Science and Innovation Council in Berne. From 2001 until 2014, a member of the Steering Committee of all Novartis campus locations. From 2012 until 2014 as a as a member of the advisory panel for Munich Airport. Since 2001, member of the Internationale Bauakademie Berlin, as and member of the committee on science and technology of the Oskar von Miller Forum in Munich. He received with the award from the Union of Architects e.V., Munich for his book”Die Modernitat der Dauerhaften”>. In 2009, 2011 and 2017, he was awarded with the Golden Owl for his exceptional teaching at ETH Zurich, in 2010, Lampuganni received the Bruno Zevi Book Award from the International Committee of Architectural Critics, the Credit Suisse Award for the best teacher of the entire ETH (2017) and the Heinrich-Tessenow-Medaille (2017).

Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani Net Worth

Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani is one of the richest Architect from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He attended at the Swiss secondary school, which was located in Rome and later it was the German Grammar school located in Rome. Between 1970 and 1973, he pursued a degree in Architecture at University La Sapienza in Rome and in the University of Stuttgart. Lampugnani was a graduate in 1973 and finished his doctorate at the University of Stuttgart in 1977. He graduated in 1983 and received the Dottore in Architettura at the University of Rome.

Between 1974-80 Lampugnani served as an assistant researcher in design and architecture within the University of Stuttgart at the chair of Jurgen Joedicke. Between 1981 and 1982 the award was an German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship in the Berlin program of exchanges between artists. In the years 1981-83 the Lampugnani family also received an research fellowship through the American Council of Learned Societies at Columbia University in New York. He was appointed professor in 1983. received the title of Professor at the International Summer School of Fine Arts in Salzburg. From 1984 until 1985, He was a visiting professor in the Department of Architecture, at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Between 1985 and 1986, he was an associate in the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study. Then, in 1990, Lampugnani got named professor at the State University of Fine Arts (Stadelschule) in Frankfurt am Main. From 1994 until the year 2016, the professor was full-time in the department of History of Urban Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). From 1998 until 2001, Lampugnani was named to be the dean for the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich in 2001, and then was vice-dean of this faculty (2001-2003). From 2005 until 2007 he was appointed as dean for the Network City and Landscape (NSL) at ETH Zurich. Between 2002-2007, Lampugnani co-founded and directed the postgraduate program Urban Forms. Conditions and Consequences>>. From 2007 until 2010 he was director of the work group Spatial Sciences’ in the ETH Domain>>. Since 2008, he has been dean’s deputy, and two years later, in 2010 when he was named director of the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta). In his time as dean at ETH Zurich, Lampugnani has delivered numerous international talks and has also held guest professorships at institutions such as Harvard University, Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura of the University of Navarra in Pamplona as well as the Faculty of Architecture at the Politecnico in Milan.

1984 Lampugnani directed the exhibition «The adventure of ideas in architecture 1750 – 1980» at the New National Gallery of Berlin. (1985 the exhibition was shown under the title «L’avventura delle idee nell’architettura 1750-1980» at Palazzo della Triennale in Milan.) In 1987, followed the exhibition «Le città immaginate: un viaggio in Italia» (Imagined cities: a journey through Italy) also at the Palazzo della Triennale (with Vittorio Savi). From 1990 to 1995, Lampugnani was appointed director of the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main, where he organized numerous exhibitions, symposia and lecture series. In addition, he curated the exhibition «Rinascimento. Da Brunelleschi a Michelangelo: La rappresentazione dell’architettura» in 1994 at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice (with Henry Millon). Between 1995–96, the exhibition travelled to the National Gallery of Art (Washington DC), the Musée des Monuments historiques (Paris), and the Altes Museum (Berlin). Several of his architectural works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at the Venice Biennale.

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