Pier Giacomo Castiglioni belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Pier Giacomo Castiglioni as Italian architect and designer (1913–1968).
Pier Giacomo Castiglioni was born at Milan in 1913. His recorded nationality is Italy. He trained at Polytechnic University of Milan.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect, designer and industrial designer.
His work is associated with the castiglioni method.
Among his best-known works are Lierna Chair and San Gabriele Arcangelo in Mater Dei Church. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Gold Medal for Italian Architecture and Compasso d'Oro.
That the work was built in Italy shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Pier Giacomo Castiglioni died in 1968, aged 55. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Lierna Chair
- Notable work: San Gabriele Arcangelo in Mater Dei Church
- Gold Medal for Italian Architecture
- Compasso d'Oro
- Movement: The Castiglioni Method
- Trained at Polytechnic University of Milan
