Massimo Scolari

Background

Massimo Scolari was born in Novi Ligure, Piedmont, on 31 March 1943. He is an Italian architect, painter and designer, and he graduated in architecture in Milan in 1969.

Teaching and editing

From 1973 he taught architectural history in Palermo and drawing at the IUAV in Venice. Between 1975 and 1993 he was a visiting professor at universities including Cornell University, the Cooper Union, Harvard University and the Technische Universitat in Vienna, and from 2006 a Davenport Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture.

Furniture for Giorgetti

From 1989 he designed furniture for Giorgetti, where he was also art director until 2001. The designs on Giorgetti's designer page include Dora, Normal, Erasmo, Tenet, Arabella, Olimpia, Talo and Leggio.

Recognition

Museum collections holding his work include the MoMA in New York, the Teheran Museum of Contemporary Art, the Deutsches Architektur Museum in Frankfurt and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In 2014 he received the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.