Vico Magistretti

Italian architect and industrial designer (1920–2006)

In the history of building, Vico Magistretti is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Vico Magistretti as Italian architect and industrial designer (1920–2006).

Vico Magistretti was born at Milan in 1920. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Italy. He trained at Polytechnic University of Milan.

Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.

He is recorded as architect, designer and university teacher.

Among his best-known works are Eclisse and Chimera (lamp). An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.

Recognition followed: Compasso d'Oro.

That the work was built in Kingdom of Italy shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.

Vico Magistretti died in 2006, aged 86. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.

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