Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani

Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani ( born March 5, 1951 in Rome ) is an Italian architect, theorist, historian and professor of architecture history of urban design at the ETH Zurich.

Academic education

Lampugnani attended from 1957 to 1960, the Swiss School in Rome, and then, from 1960 to 1970, the German School in Rome. From 1970 to 1973 he studied at the University La Sapienza in Rome and the University of Stuttgart architecture. In 1973 he received his diploma in 1977 he received his doctorate in Stuttgart. In 1983, he earned the Dottore in Architettura at the University of Rome.

Research and Science

Between 1974 and 1980 Lampugnani was a research associate at the Institute for Fundamentals of modern architecture and design at the University of Stuttgart Jürgen Joedicke. 1981-82 was followed by a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service in Berlin artist exchange program, 1981-83 a Research Fellowship of the American Council of Learned Societies at Columbia University in New York. 1983 was Lampugnani professor at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, 1984-85 Professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1986 a one-year fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin. From 1990-94 he was a university professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts ( Städel school) in Frankfurt am Main. Since 1994 he has been Professor of the History of Urban Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, from 1998 to 2001 and also head of the Department of Architecture, 2001-03 Deputy Head, since 2003 member of the Institute for Urban Design, 2005-07 Head of the Network City landscape. 2002-07 he was director of the graduate program "Urban Forms: conditions and consequences ", 2007-2010 Head of Research Group " Space Science in the ETH Domain " Since 2008 he has been deputy chief, since 2010 head of the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta. ). he also held numerous lectures and has held visiting professorships, including at Harvard University, at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura of the Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona and at the Faculty of Architecture of the Politecnico di Milano.

Lampugnani was one of the protagonists of the Berlin architectural dispute, which was sparked by the guidelines of the redevelopment of downtown Berlin after reunification. He propagates a formally disciplined, typical local - contextual and aesthetically sustainable architecture modernist or postmodernist without extravagances. As an author and editor of several acclaimed works of architectural history and theory, and the author of numerous essays his trenchant opinion is cited.

Exhibitions

1984 led Lampugnani the exhibition " The Adventure of Ideas. Architecture and philosophy since the Industrial Revolution" in the New National Gallery in Berlin (1985, under the title " L' avventura delle idee nell'architettura 1750-1980 " at the Palazzo della Triennale in Milan ). In 1987 he was the exhibition " Le città immaginate: un viaggio in Italia ", also in the Palazzo della Triennale ( with Vittorio Savi ). 1990-95 he was Director of the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main, where numerous exhibitions, symposia and lecture series developed under his leadership. He also curated the exhibition " Renaissance Brunelleschi As a Michelangelo. Rappresentazione La dell'architettura " in 1994 at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice ( with Henry Millon ), 1995-96 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, the Musée des Monuments historiques, Paris, and in the Altes Museum, Berlin was to be seen.

Consulting and Editorial Boards

From 1980-84 Lampugnani was scientific advisor to the International Building Exhibition Berlin ( the new construction areas ). 1981-85 was followed by the membership of the editorial committee of " Casabella " in Milan. Between 1986-90 he was deputy editor from 1990-96 alone responsible editor of "Domus ". 2000-2005 he was a member of the editorial board of "The Harvard Design Magazine". Since 2010 he has architecture and town planning consultant for the reconstruction of L' Aquila.

Memberships and Honors

In 1987, Lampugnani the price of the Comité International des Critiques d'Architecture. Since 1991 he is member of the Association of German Architects, since 1995 the Federal Swiss architects. 1992-96 he was a member of the Architecture Advisory Board of Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main, 1999-2002 Member of the scientific advisory boards of the Triennale di Milano and the Musée d'Architecture Français, Paris. This was followed by the 2000-2004 membership of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Collegium Helveticum, Zurich, and the Swiss Science and Technology Council, Bern. Since 2001 he is member of the International Academy of Architecture in Berlin, the Steering Committee of Novartis Campus Basel, Novartis Campus East Hanover, New Jersey, the Novartis Campus Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Novartis Campus Shanghai and the Commission " Kunst am Bau " ETH Zurich. In 2006 he received the honorary prize of the Association of Independent Architects of Germany for his book " The modernity of Permanent " Since 2009, he is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Denklabor Villa Garbald in Bergel. In 2006 he received the honorary prize of the Association of freelance architects of Germany eV, Munich, 2009, the Golden Owl for special merits in teaching.

Work as an architect (selection)

Since 1980 Lampugnani has an architectural firm, first in Berlin and then in Milan and Zurich.

• 2008 underground station Mergellina, Naples
• 2007 Master plan Richti district, Wallisellenstrasse, and planning of open spaces and a residential courtyard
• 2008 Office building in the factory Strasse 12 on the Novartis Campus in Basel
• 2004 redesign bank of the Danube, Regensburg ( 2004 ff ), with Wolfgang Weinzierl and others
• 2002 Centre for Research and Development on the Novartis Campus in Basel
• 2001 Urban Design Master Plan for the Novartis Campus in Basel
• 2001 entrance square of Audi in Ingolstadt (1999-2001), with Wolfgang Weinzierl
• 1999 housing group in Maria Lankowitz (Styria ), with Marlene Dorrie and Michael Regner
• 1996 office complex in block 109 in Berlin with Marlene Dorrie

Work as a writer

• Something in the feeling of love. Publisher of the ark, Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-7160-1637-3, p 300