12 Notable alumni of
IUAV University of Venice
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The IUAV University of Venice is 1949th in the world, 657th in Europe, and 36th in Italy by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 12 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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Homayoun Ershadi
- Enrolled in the IUAV University of Venice
- In 1970 studied architecture
- Occupations
- television actoractorfilm actorarchitect
- Biography
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Homayoun Ershadi was an Iranian actor. He was known for his debut role in Taste of Cherry (1997), and several subsequent Iranian and other films, including European films like Agora or Hollywood films like The Kite Runner and Zero Dark Thirty.
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Luigi Brugnaro
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- sports executiveentrepreneurpolitician
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Luigi Brugnaro is an Italian conservative politician and entrepreneur who has been the mayor of Venice since 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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Mario Botta
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- university teacherteacherdesignerarchitectrestorer
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Mario Botta is a Swiss architect. 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 architects Carlo Scarpa, Louis Kahn and Le Corbusier. Botta started his own architectural practice in Lugano in 1970.
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Alejandro Alavena
- Enrolled in the IUAV University of Venice
- 1992-1993 graduated with postgraduate education
- Occupations
- university teacherarchitect
- Biography
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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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- graphic designerarchitectinterior designeruniversity teacherdesigner
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Massimo Vignelli was an Italian designer active in graphic design, industrial design, furniture, and architecture. He worked within the modernist tradition, emphasizing simplicity through the use of basic geometric forms. With his wife Lella, Vignelli helped establish the New York office of Unimark International and Vignelli Associates.
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Gaetano Pesce
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- university teacherindustrial designerentrepreneurjewelry designerperformance artist
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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
- Occupations
- urban plannerarchitect
- Biography
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Giancarlo De Carlo was an Italian architect. 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
- Occupations
- conferencierpainterarchitect
- Biography
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Smiljan Radic is a Chilean architect of Croatian heritage.
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Lella Vignelli
- Occupations
- designerbusinesspersonarchitectjewelry designer
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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
- Biography
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Inés Moisset is an Argentine architect, known for her research into the theory and history of the discipline.
