Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani as Italian architect and professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.
Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani was born at Rome in 1951. His recorded nationality is Italy.
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, university teacher and writer.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
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.
