100 Notable alumni of
Polytechnic University of Milan
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The Polytechnic University of Milan is 445th in the world, 158th in Europe, and 12th in Italy by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Polytechnic University of Milan sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with the Polytechnic University of Milan won Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
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Renzo Piano
- Enrolled in the Polytechnic University of Milan
- Studied in 1964
- Occupations
- architectpolitician
- Biography
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Renzo Piano OMRI is an Italian architect. His notable works include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (with Richard Rogers, 1977), The Shard in London (2012), Kansai International Airport in Osaka (1994), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City (2015), Istanbul Museum of Modern Art in Istanbul (2022), Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens (2016) and The New York Times Building in New York City (2007). He was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1998.
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Elio
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- singerradio personalitycomposersinger-songwriterengineer
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Stefano Belisari, nicknamed Elio, is an Italian singer, comedian, actor and musician. He is a founding member of the Italian rock band Elio e le Storie Tese.
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Stefano Pessina
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- engineerbusinesspersonentrepreneurchief executive officer
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Stefano Pessina is an Italian-Monegasque billionaire businessman; he is the executive chairman and large investor in The Boots Group
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Luigi Comencini
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- screenwriterdirectorfilm director
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Luigi Comencini was an Italian film director. Together with Dino Risi, Ettore Scola, and Mario Monicelli, he was considered among the masters of the "commedia all'italiana" genre.
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Ettore Sottsass
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- photographerdesignerjewelry designerindustrial designerpainter
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Ettore Sottsass was an Italian architect and product designer. He was known for his designs of furniture, jewelry, glass, lighting, homeware and office supplies. He also worked on numerous buildings and interiors, often defined by bold colours.
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Aldo Rossi
- Enrolled in the Polytechnic University of Milan
- 1949-1959 graduated with laurea in architecture
- Occupations
- graphic artistphilosopheruniversity teacherarchitectpainter
- Biography
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Aldo Rossi was an Italian architect and designer who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: architectural theory, drawing and design and also product design. He was one of the leading proponents of the postmodern movement.
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Giorgio Gori
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- politicianentrepreneurjournalist
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Giorgio Gori is an Italian entrepreneur, journalist, and politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party (PD) and former mayor of Bergamo.
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Flavio Cattaneo
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- businesspersonmanager
- Biography
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Flavio Cattaneo is an Italian manager and entrepreneur. Since 2023, he has been CEO and General Manager of Enel and vice chair of Endesa. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Assicurazioni Generali.
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Gae Aulenti
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- architectscenographerinterior designerdesignercostume designer
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Gaetana "Gae" Emilia Aulenti was an Italian architect and designer. Aulenti began her career in the early 1950s, establishing herself as one of the few prominent female architects in post-war Italy.
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Carlo Emilio Gadda
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- politicianprose writerwriterengineerpoet
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Carlo Emilio Gadda was an Italian writer and poet. He belongs to the tradition of the language innovators, writers who played with the somewhat stiff standard pre-war Italian language, and added elements of dialects, technical jargon and wordplay.
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Demetrio Stratos
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- ethnomusicologistcomposersinger-songwriterrecording artistmusicologist
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Efstratios Dimitriou, known professionally as Demetrio Stratos, was a Greek-Italian vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and music researcher, best known as the co-founder, frontman and lead singer of the Italian progressive rock band Area – International POPular Group.
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Gio Ponti
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- scenographeruniversity teacherarchitectwriterpainter
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Giovanni "Gio" Ponti was an Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, teacher, writer and publisher.
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Giulio Natta
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- university teacherchemistinventor
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Giulio Natta was an Italian chemical engineer and Nobel laureate. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 with Karl Ziegler for work on high density polymers. He also received a Lomonosov Gold Medal in 1969.
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Paola Marella
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- television presenterreal-estate agentdesignerarchitectinterior designer
- Biography
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Paola Maria Marella was an Italian architect, designer and television presenter.
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Stefania Casini
- Occupations
- actorscreenwriterfilm actorfilm directorjournalist
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Stefania Casini is an Italian actress, screenwriter, director, and producer. She appeared alongside Robert De Niro and Gérard Depardieu in Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 (1976) and received two David di Donatello Award nominations for her work in the 1983 film Lontano da dove. In recent years she was also the visual inspiration for the comics version of Frank Wedekind's LULU adapted by John Linton Roberson. She once posed on Playboy.
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Saul Steinberg
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- photographerdesignercaricaturistpainterarchitect
- Biography
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Saul Steinberg was a Romanian-born American artist, best known for his work for The New Yorker, most notably View of the World from 9th Avenue. He described himself as "a writer who draws".
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Maurizio Nichetti
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- screenwriterdirectorfilm directorfilm produceractor
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Maurizio Nichetti is an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.
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Robert Ludvigovich Bartini
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- military flight engineerinventorphysicistaircraft pilot
- Biography
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Robert Ludvigovich Bartini was a Hungarian-born Soviet aircraft designer and scientist, involved in the development of numerous successful and experimental aircraft projects. A pioneer of amphibious aircraft and ground-effect vehicles, Bartini was one of the most famous engineers in the Soviet Union, nicknamed Barone Rosso (Red Baron) because of his noble descent.
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Stefano Boeri
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- university teacherpoliticianwriterarchitecturban planner
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Stefano Boeri is an Italian architect and urban planner, and a founding partner of Stefano Boeri Architetti. Among his most known projects are the Vertical Forest in Milan, the Villa Méditerranée in Marseille, and the House of the Sea of La Maddalena. He is the professor of urban planning at the Polytechnic University of Milan.
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Massimo Vignelli
- Occupations
- graphic designerarchitectinterior designeruniversity teacherdesigner
- Biography
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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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Amalia Ercoli-Finzi
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- astrophysicistengineermilitary flight engineer
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Amalia Ercoli Finzi is an Italian engineer and academic, Principal Investigator of the SD2 drill aboard the Philae spacecraft.
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Guido Crepax
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- graphic artistcomics artistillustratorcaricaturist
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Guido Crepax, was an Italian comics artist. He is most famous for his character Valentina, created in 1965 and very representative of the spirit of the 1960s. The Valentina series of books and strips became noted for Crepax's sophisticated drawing, and for the psychedelic, dreamlike storylines, generally involving a strong dose of eroticism. His work was often politically motivated too, inspired by his Communist convictions. A film based on his work called Baba Yaga, featuring the character Valentina, was made in 1973.
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Vittorio Gregotti
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- university teacherarchitecteditor-in-chief
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Vittorio Gregotti was an Italian architect, born in Novara. He was seen as both a member of the Neo-Avant Garde and a key figure in 1970s Postmodernism.
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Emanuele Fiano
- Enrolled in the Polytechnic University of Milan
- In 1988 studied architecture
- Occupations
- architectpolitician
- Biography
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Emanuele "Lele" Fiano is an Italian politician and former member of Italy's Chamber of Deputies for the centre-left Democratic Party. A prominent figure in the Italian Jewish community, Fiano is a past president of the Jewish Community of Milan and former director of the Union of Jewish Communities in Italy.
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Achille Castiglioni
- Enrolled in the Polytechnic University of Milan
- Studied in 1944
- Occupations
- designerindustrial designeruniversity teacherarchitect
- Biography
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Achille Castiglioni was an Italian architect and designer. He is known for his furniture, lighting, radiograms and other objects, many of which are considered icons of post-war Italian design. As a professor of design, he advised his students "If you are not curious, forget it. If you are not interested in others, what they do and how they act, then being a designer is not the right job for you."
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Alessandro Mendini
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- editing staffdesignerarchitectvisual artistphotographer
- Biography
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Alessandro Mendini was an Italian designer and architect. He played an important part in the development of Italian, Postmodern, and Radical design. He also worked, aside from his artistic career, for Casabella, Modo and Domus magazines.
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Leonardo Fioravanti
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- designerengineerentrepreneur
- Biography
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Leonardo Fioravanti is an Italian automobile designer and CEO of Fioravanti Srl.
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Joe Colombo
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- graphic designerarchitectsculptordesignerfurniture designer
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Cesare Colombo, known as Joe Colombo, was an Italian industrial designer.
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Roberto Castelli
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- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Roberto Castelli is an Italian politician. He was the Minister of Justice in the second and third governments of Silvio Berlusconi. He has been one of the main representatives of Lega Nord.
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Giovanni Battista Alberto Pirelli
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- politicianstatespersonmathematicianengineerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Giovanni Battista Alberto Pirelli was an Italian entrepreneur, engineer and politician, and the founder of the Pirelli company in Milan. In 1919 he was the president of Confindustria.
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Mario Bellini
- Occupations
- architectdesigner
- Biography
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Mario Bellini is an Italian architect and designer. After graduating from the Polytechnic University of Milan in 1959, he pursued a career in architecture, exhibition design, product design, and furniture design during the Italian economic boom in the late 20th century. He has worked with companies such as B&B Italia, Brionvega, Cassina, Heller, Flou, Yamaha, Olivetti, Renault, Rosenthal, Tecno, Riva 1920, Vitra, and Kartell.
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Cini Boeri
- Occupations
- architectdesigner
- Biography
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Maria Cristina Mariani Dameno, known as Cini Boeri, was an Italian architect and designer. She was considered "one of the great pioneering women in Italian design and architecture", who was described by Paola Antonelli as a "formidable architect and designer paragon of Milanese elegance and verve."
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Franco Albini
- Enrolled in the Polytechnic University of Milan
- Studied in 1925
- Occupations
- furniture designeruniversity teacherdesignerarchitecturban planner
- Biography
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Franco Albini was an Italian Neo-Rationalist architect, designer and university instructor in design.
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Giancarlo De Carlo
- Enrolled in the Polytechnic University of Milan
- In 1939 studied engineering
- 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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Enrico Forlanini
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- military flight engineerinventorbusinesspersonaircraft pilot
- Biography
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Enrico Forlanini was an Italian engineer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer, known for his works on helicopters, aeroplanes, hydrofoils and dirigibles. He was born in Milan. His older brother Carlo Forlanini was a physician.
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Vico Magistretti
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- designerarchitectuniversity teacherurban planner
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Vico Magistretti was an Italian architect, who was also active as an industrial designer, furniture designer, and academic. As a collaborator of humanist architect Ernesto Nathan Rogers, one of Magistretti's first projects was the "poetic" round church in the experimental Milan neighborhood of QT8. He later designed mass-produced appliances and furniture for companies such as Cassina S.p.A., Artemide, and Oluce. These designs won several awards, including the Compasso d'Oro, and the Minerva Medal in 1986.
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Giuseppe Busso
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- engineer
- Biography
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Giuseppe Busso was an Italian mechanical and engine designer mostly known for his tenure at Alfa Romeo and Ferrari.
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Renato Castellani
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- screenwriterdirectorfilm director
- Biography
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Renato Castellani was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
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Agostino Rocca
- Occupations
- engineerbusinesspersonentrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Agostino Rocca was an Italo-Argentine businessman.
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Piero Portaluppi
- Enrolled in the Polytechnic University of Milan
- Studied in 1905-1910
- Occupations
- industrial designerarchitecturban plannercartoonistvisual artist
- Biography
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Piero Portaluppi was an Italian architect. He is known for his prolific output, having designed over 100 buildings in Milan.
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Giampaolo Dallara
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- entrepreneurengineer
- Biography
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Giampaolo Dallara is an Italian businessman and motorsports engineer. He is the owner of Dallara Motorsports, a company that develops racing cars.
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Eleonora Evi
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- politician
- Biography
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Eleonora Evi is an Italian politician. Between July 2021 and November 2023, Evi was the spokesperson of Green Europe, sharing the leadership of the party with Angelo Bonelli.
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Ernesto Nathan Rogers
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- architectwriterediting staffuniversity teacherdesigner
- Biography
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Ernesto Nathan Rogers was an Italian architect, writer and educator.
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Paolo Caccia Dominioni
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- writerpartisanengineerarchitect
- Biography
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Paolo Caccia Dominioni, 14th Baron of Sillavengo was an Italian soldier, officer in the Alpini mountain Infantry Corps, engineer and writer, most noted for his leadership in the North Africa Campaign in World War II.
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Marco Zanuso
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- designerarchitectindustrial designer
- Biography
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Marco Zanuso was an Italian architect and designer associated with modernism.
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Luigi Caccia Dominioni
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- architectdesigner
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Luigi Caccia Dominioni was an Italian architect and furniture designer.
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Paola Antonelli
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- curatoruniversity teacherwriterart historianarchitect
- Biography
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Paola Antonelli is an Italian author, critic, and curator. She heads the architecture and design department of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where she is also the founding Director of Research and Development. Antonelli has been described as "one of the 25 most incisive design visionaries in the world" by TIME magazine. She has said that all objects tell stories, and that "some objects [...] make history – or change it."
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Fabio Novembre
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- designergraphic designerarchitect
- Biography
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Fabio Novembre is an Italian architect and designer.
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Riccardo Lombardi
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- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Riccardo Lombardi was an Italian politician.
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Piero Pirelli
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- entrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Piero Pirelli, born Piero Carlo Pirelli,, was an Italian entrepreneur and the son of Giovanni Battista Pirelli, the founder of Pirelli.
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Giovanni Muzio
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- university teacherarchitect
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Giovanni Muzio was an Italian architect. Muzio was born and died in Milan. He was closely associated with the Novecento Italiano artists group.
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Maurizio Margaglio
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- figure skating choreographerfigure skating coachice dancer
- Biography
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Maurizio Margaglio is an Italian ice dancing coach and former competitor. With partner Barbara Fusar-Poli, he is the 2001 World champion, 2001 European champion, and 2002 Olympic bronze medalist. They won nine Italian titles and competed at three Olympics.
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Giorgio Grassi
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- architect
- Biography
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Giorgio Grassi is one of Italy's most important modern architects, and part of the so-called Italian rationalist school, also known as La Tendenza, associated most famously with Carlo Aymonino and Aldo Rossi that emerged in Italy in the 1960s. Much influenced by Ludwig Hilberseimer, Heinrich Tessenow and Adolf Loos, Grassi's architecture is the most severely rational of the group: his extremely formal work is predicated on absolute simplicity, clarity, and honesty without ingratiation, rhetoric, or spectacular shape-making; it refers to historical archetypes of form and space and has a strong concern with the making of urban space. For these reasons Grassi is a non-conformist and a critic of conventional mainstream architecture.
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Mario Palanti
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- architect
- Biography
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Mario Palanti was an Italian architect who designed important buildings in the capital cities of both Argentina and Uruguay.
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Chiara Braga
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- politician
- Biography
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Chiara Braga is an Italian politician of the Democratic Party who has served in the Chamber of Deputies since 2008. She was first elected in the 2008 general election, and was re-elected in 2013, 2018 and 2022. Since 2023, she has served as group leader of the Democratic Party in the chamber.
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Angelo Mangiarotti
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- designerurban designerarchitecturban planner
- Biography
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Angelo Mangiarotti was an Italian architect and industrial designer. His designs were mostly for industrial buildings and railway stations. In 1994, he received the Compasso d'Oro award of the Associazione per il Disegno Industriale for his lifetime of achievement.
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Eugenio Curiel
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- partisanphysicistjournalist
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Eugenio Curiel was an Italian physicist, a prominent figure of the Italian resistance movement. He was awarded a gold medal (posthumously) for military valour.
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Ezio Frigerio
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- art directorscenographerproduction designercostume designer
- Biography
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Ezio Frigerio was an Italian costume designer and art director.
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Raffaele Rossetti
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- engineerinventormilitary officerpolitician
- Biography
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Raffaele Rossetti was an Italian engineer and military naval officer who sank the once main battleship of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I. He was also a politician of the Italian Republican Party.
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Bernardino Nogara
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- economistengineerbankerpolitician
- Biography
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Bernardino Nogara was the financial advisor to the Vatican between 1929 and 1954, appointed by Pope Pius XI and retained by Pope Pius XII as the first Director of the Special Administration of the Holy See. According to historian John F. Pollard, Nogara laid "the foundations" for "one of the biggest pillars for the Vatican's post-Second World War financial strength."
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Giulio Alfieri
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- engineer
- Biography
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Giulio Alfieri was an Italian automobile engineer, affiliated with Maserati in Modena, Italy since 1953, where he was central to the development of racing and production cars in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
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Domenico Corcione
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary officer
- Biography
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Domenico Corcione was an Italian general who served as defence minister of Italy between 1995 and 1996.
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Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
- Enrolled in the Polytechnic University of Milan
- Studied in 1937
- Occupations
- designerarchitectindustrial designer
- Biography
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Pier Giacomo Castiglioni was an Italian architect and designer.
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Lorenzo Mongiardino
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- architectproduction designer
- Biography
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Lorenzo "Renzo" Mongiardino was an Italian architect, interior designer, and production designer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.
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Paolo Baratta
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Paolo Baratta OMRI is an Italian economist and ex-minister. From 2008 to 2020 he was the President of the Venice Biennale.
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Pier Luigi Pizzi
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- costume designerscenographertheatrical directortheatre designer
- Biography
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Pier Luigi Pizzi is an Italian opera director, set and costume designer.
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Aldo Pontremoli
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- physicistexplorer
- Biography
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Aldo Pontremoli was an Italian physicist who held a chair of theoretical physics at the physics department of the University of Milan from 1926 and who founded and directed the Institute of Advanced Physics at the University of Milan from 1924 until his disappearance and presumed death in May 1928. Pontremoli was one of the six men who disappeared with the airborne envelope of the airship Italia after it had crashed on the Arctic ice on 25 May 1928.
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Giuseppe Mario Bellanca
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- military flight engineerinventoraircraft pilotaircraft designer
- Biography
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Giuseppe Mario Bellanca was an Italian-American aviation pioneer, airplane designer and builder, who is credited with many design firsts and whose aircraft broke many aviation records. He was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1973. The Bellanca C.F., one of the world's first enclosed-cabin monoplanes, is on display at the National Air and Space Museum. Bellanca was known mostly for his long range aircraft which led the way for the advancement of international and commercial air transportation.
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Italo Rota
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- university teacherpoliticiandesignerscenographerarchitect
- Biography
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Italo Rota was an Italian architect.
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Giovanni Azzone
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Giovanni Azzone is an Italian engineer and academic, rector of the Polytechnic University of Milan between 2010 and 2016.
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Marco Reguzzoni
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- politician
- Biography
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Marco Giovanni Reguzzoni is an Italian politician and entrepreneur. He was President of Varese Province from 2002 to 2008. He was a member of the Italian Parliament as congressman and president of the Northern League group since 2013 and now he is the President of Volandia, the largest museum of flight in Europe.
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Edo Ronchi
- Occupations
- politiciansociologist
- Biography
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Edo Ronchi is an Italian engineer and politician. He served as Minister of Environment and protection of land and sea from 1996 to 2000 in three different cabinets. He was the first Green politician to hold a cabinet post in Italy.
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Pier Luigi Romita
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- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Pier Luigi Romita was an Italian politician who was several times a minister of the Italian Republic.
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Marco Dorigo
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Marco Dorigo is a research director for the Belgian Funds for Scientific Research and a co-director of IRIDIA, the artificial intelligence lab of the Université libre de Bruxelles. He received a PhD in System and Information Engineering in 1992 from the Polytechnic University of Milan with a thesis titled Optimization, learning, and natural algorithms. He is the leading proponent of the ant colony optimization metaheuristic (see his book published by MIT Press in 2004), and one of the founders of the swarm intelligence research field. Recently he got involved with research in swarm robotics: he is the coordinator of Swarm-bots: Swarms of self-assembling artifacts and of Swarmanoid: Towards humanoid robotic swarms, two swarm robotics projects funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies Program of the European Commission. He is also the founding editor and editor in chief of Swarm Intelligence, the principal peer-reviewed publication dedicated to reporting research and new developments in this multidisciplinary field.
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Massimo Iosa Ghini
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- designerarchitectbusinessperson
- Biography
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Massimo Iosa Ghini is an Italian architect, designer, and professor, known for his contributions to the Bolidist Movement and his work with Memphis Group architects such as Ettore Sottsass and Michael Graves. His career spans decades and includes projects in Italy, the United States, and Russia. He owns a substantial collection of furniture, reflecting his futuristic design style. In 1990, he founded the architecture and design firm Iosa Ghini Associati in Milan.
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Stelio Frati
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- engineermilitary flight engineer
- Biography
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Stelio Frati was an Italian mechanical engineer and aeroplane designer. He graduated from the Politecnico di Milano as a mechanical engineer in 1943, participating in the design of the Aeronautica Lombarda AR (Assalto Radioguidato - RC attack) radio-controlled wooden cantilever monoplane, powered by a single radial engine - a flying bomb/drone, flown for the first time the same year. After teaching aircraft design he became a freelance aircraft designer, being responsible for many well known aircraft designs. One of his best known designs is the Falco F8L.
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Antonio Lago
- Occupations
- businesspersonengineer
- Biography
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Antonio Franco Lago was an Italian engineer and motor-industry entrepreneur. In 1936 he bought Automobiles Talbot S.A. from his employers, the collapsed Anglo-French S.T.D. Motors combine, and founded the motor-racing marque Talbot-Lago.
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Giuseppe Belluzzo
- Occupations
- engineerinventoruniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Giuseppe Belluzzo was an Italian mechanical engineer, scholar and politician. He was a member of the Italian Parliament and of the Italian Senate. He served as the minister of national economy and minister of public education in the cabinet of Benito Mussolini.
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Sara Sabry
- Years
- 1993-.. (age 33)
- Occupations
- astronautengineer
- Biography
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Sara Sabry is an Egyptian engineer, citizen astronaut, and entrepreneur. In 2022, as part of the Blue Origin NS-22 mission, she became the first Egyptian to travel into space, as well as the first African and Arab woman. She is also the founder and CEO of the Deep Space Initiative, a non-profit organization.
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Stefano Siragusa
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Stefano Siragusa is an Italian executive. He was deputy general manager of TIM.
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Franca Helg
- Enrolled in the Polytechnic University of Milan
- Studied in 1945
- Occupations
- university teacherdesignerarchitect
- Biography
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Franca Helg was an Italian designer and architect. She also had a career teaching at Istituto Universitario Architettura Venezia and the Polytechnic of Milan. She collaborated with Franco Albini from 1945 through 1977.
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Adam Tihany
- Occupations
- interior designerarchitect
- Biography
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Adam D. Tihany is a hospitality designer based in New York. He founded the multidisciplinary design firm Tihany Design in 1978, and is considered the origin of the title "restaurant designer". His firm has designed hotel and dining properties at many notable properties around the world. Tihany was named one of the greatest American interior architects by The New York Times in 2001.
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Aldo Buzzi
- Occupations
- screenwriterarchitectwriterfilm screenwriterassistant director
- Biography
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Aldo Buzzi was an author and architect.
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Paolo Vietti-Violi
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Paolo Vietti-Violi was an Italian architect. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
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Giulio Cederna
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Giulio Cederna was an Italian sports manager, business manager and footballer who played as a goalkeeper or midfielder in the late 1890s and early 1900s. He was the son of Antonio Cederna, a Garibaldi and mountaineer from Valtellina who settled in Milan to become a textile industrialist, founding a cotton mill in the district of Gratosoglio. He later opened two further mills in Agrate Brianza and Monza.
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Guido Podestà
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Guido Podestà is an Italian politician and former Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. He was elected president of the province of Milan on 2009/06/22, replacing the centre-left candidate Filippo Penati, whom he beat in a runoff vote.
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Giovanni Lurani
- Occupations
- racing automobile driverracing driverjournalist
- Biography
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Giovanni “Johnny” Lurani Cernuschi, VIII Count of Calvenzano was an Italian automobile engineer, racing car driver and journalist.
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Luigi Conconi
- Occupations
- paintergraphic artistillustratorarchitect
- Biography
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Luigi Conconi was an Italian painter, printmaker, illustrator and architect. He is considered a leading figure of the Scapigliatura movement.
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Joseph di Pasquale
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Joseph Di Pasquale is an Italian architect.
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Luigi Negri
- Enrolled in the Polytechnic University of Milan
- Graduated with architect
- Occupations
- architectcollectorpolitician
- Biography
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Luigi Negri, is an Italian architect and politician, an exponent of the Lombard League and the Northern League. He served as a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 1992 to 2001. His passion for the history of art led him to deepen, above all, the study of porcelain and to collect it.
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Emilio Gola
- Occupations
- painterpastellistwatercolorist
- Biography
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Emilio Gola was an Italian Impressionist painter.
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Livio Castiglioni
- Occupations
- industrial designerdesignerarchitecturban plannerlighting designer
- Biography
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Livio Castiglioni was an Italian architect and designer. He made a significant contribution to twentieth-century Italian lighting design and was an early proponent of the practice of industrial design in Italy.
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Andrea C. Ferrari
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Andrea Carlo Ferrari is a professor of nanotechnology at the University of Cambridge. Ferrari is a researcher in graphene and related materials.
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Claudio Costa
- Occupations
- ceramicistpaintersculptor
- Biography
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Claudio Costa was a Contemporary Artist from the 1970s avant-garde movement.
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Ernesto Belloni
- Occupations
- university teacherbusinesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Ernesto Belloni was an Italian businessman, academic and politician who served as the first podestà of Milan from 1926 to 1928. In 1929 he was accused of corruption and condemned to leave his party and then to a 5-years confino. Under Belloni, the public debt of the city of Milan raised from 60 to 185 million Lire between 1926 and 1927.
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Luigi Amerio
- Occupations
- mathematicianelectrical engineer
- Biography
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Luigi Amerio, was an Italian electrical engineer and mathematician. He is known for his work on almost periodic functions, on Laplace transforms in one and several dimensions, and on the theory of elliptic partial differential equations.
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Aldo Andreani
- Occupations
- architectsculptor
- Biography
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Aldo Andreani was an Italian architect and sculptor.
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Riccardo Sarfatti
- Occupations
- architectentrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Riccardo Sarfatti was an Italian architect, entrepreneur and politician.
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Antonio Perazzi
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Antonio Perazzi is an Italian garden designer, landscape architect, botanist, writer and journalist. He is an expert in naturalistic and ecological garden.
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Luciano Baldessari
- Occupations
- scenographerdesignerwatercoloristarchitect
- Biography
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Luciano Baldessari was an Italian artist, architect, and designer. Baldessari was born on December 10, 1896, in Rovereto, Italy.
