13 Notable alumni of
IUAV University of Venice
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The IUAV University of Venice is 1930th in the world, 645th in Europe, and 36th in Italy by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 13 notable alumni from the IUAV University of Venice sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Milo Manara
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- character designerpaintercomics artistwriterillustrator
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Maurilio Manara, known professionally as Milo Manara, is an Italian comic book writer and artist.
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Mario Botta
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- restoreruniversity teacherteacherdesignerarchitect
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Mario Botta is a Swiss architect born in Mendrisio, Ticino on 1 April 1943. At age fifteen, Botta dropped out of secondary school and apprenticed with the architectural firm of Carloni and Camenisch in Lugano. After three years, he went to the Art College in Milan for his baccalaureate, and then to Università Iuav di Venezia for his professional degree in 1969. During his time in Venice, Botta got to meet and work with the architects: Carlo Scarpa, Louis Kahn and Le Corbusier. Mario Botta started his own architectural practice in Lugano in 1970.
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Luigi Brugnaro
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- entrepreneurpoliticiansports executive
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Luigi Brugnaro is an Italian conservative politician and entrepreneur who has been the mayor of Venice, since taking office on 15 June 2015. Since July 2021, he is also president of Coraggio Italia (CI), a political party affiliated with the centre-right coalition.
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Homayoun Ershadi
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- film actorarchitecttelevision actoractor
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Homayoun Ershadi is an Iranian actor, known for his debut role in Taste of Cherry (1997), and several Iranian and other films since then, including European films like Agora or Hollywood films like The Kite Runner and Zero Dark Thirty.
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Alejandro Alavena
- Enrolled in the IUAV University of Venice
- 1992-1993 graduated with postgraduate education
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- university teacherarchitect
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Alejandro Gastón Aravena Mori is a Chilean architect and executive director of the firm Elemental S.A. He won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2016, and was the director and curator of the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture.
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Massimo Vignelli
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- furniture designergraphic designerarchitectinterior designeruniversity teacher
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Massimo Vignelli was an Italian designer who worked in a number of areas including packaging, houseware, furniture, public signage, and showroom design. He was the co-founder of Vignelli Associates, with his wife, Lella. His motto was, "If you can design one thing, you can design everything," which the broad range of his work reflects.
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Gaetano Pesce
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- authorfurniture designerarchitectuniversity teacherindustrial designer
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Gaetano Pesce was an Italian architect and a design pioneer of the 20th century. Pesce was born in La Spezia in 1939, and he grew up in Padua and Florence. During his 50-year career, Pesce worked as an architect, urban planner, and industrial designer. His outlook is considered broad and humanistic, and his work is characterized by an inventive use of color and materials, asserting connections between the individual and society, through art, architecture, and design to reappraise mid-twentieth-century modern life.
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Sergio Staino
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- screenwritersatiristfilm directorcomics artist
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Sergio Staino was an Italian comics author, satirist, and film director.
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Giancarlo De Carlo
- Enrolled in the IUAV University of Venice
- In 1948 studied architecture
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- urban plannerarchitect
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Giancarlo De Carlo was an Italian architect and anarchist. He was a member of the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) and became closely linked to Urbino as its town planner and creator of its master plan. Throughout his architecture career he advocated for the consideration of human, physical, cultural, and historical forces in design.
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Smiljan Radic
- Enrolled in the IUAV University of Venice
- 1990-1992 studied aesthetics
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- conferencierpainterarchitect
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Smiljan Radic is a Chilean architect of Croatian heritage.
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Lella Vignelli
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- architectjewelry designerdesignerbusinessperson
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Lella Vignelli was an Italian architect, designer, and businesswomen. She collaborated closely throughout much of her life with her husband Massimo Vignelli, with whom she founded Vignelli Associates in 1971.
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Francesco Bandarin
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- urban plannerarchitect
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Francesco Bandarin is an Italian architect. He was Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre from 2000 to 2010 and then Assistant Director-General of UNESCO for Culture from 2010 to 2018.
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Inés Moisset
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- architectscientist
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Inés Moisset is an Argentine architect, known for her research into the theory and history of the discipline.
