Institut für Städtebau
Institute for Urban Design
Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft NSL / Network City and Landscape
ETH Zürich
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Vittorio
Magnago Lampugnani
Born
in Rome in 1951. Swiss primary school, Rome, German grammar school, Rome.
Study of architecture at Rome and Stuttgart University; 1973 graduation
and 1977 doctorate in architecture at Stuttgart University. Since 1978
member of the Baden-Württemberg Institute for Architects, since 1979
of the Deutscher Werkbund. 1983 doctorate in architecture at Rome University.
1987 prize awarded by the Comité International des Critiques d'Architecture.
Since 1991 member of the Bund Deutscher Architekten, since 1995 of the
Bund Schweizer Architekten. 1992 - 96 member of the Architecture advisory
board of the 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. 2000 - 04 member of the Scientific
advisory board of the Collegium Helveticum, Zurich, and of the Swiss science
and technology council, Berne. Since 2001 member of the Internationale
Bauakademie Berlin, and of the Novartis Campus Steering Comittee, Basel.
From
1974 - 80 scientific assistant at the Institute for modern architecture
and design at Stuttgart University. 1981 - 82 DAAD scholarship under the
Berlin programme of artistic exchanges. In 1981 and 1982 - 83 research
fellowship granted by the American Council of Learned Societies at Columbia
University, New York. 1983 professor at the International Summer School
of Fine Arts, Salzburg. 1984 - 85 visiting professor at the Department
of Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Mass.; 1985 - 86 Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Berlin.
1990 - 94 professor at the State University of Fine Arts (Städelschule),
Frankfurt am Main. Since 1994 professor for the History of Urban Design
at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, where he was dean
of the faculty from 1998-2001, and vice-dean from 2001 - 03; since 2003
member of the Institute for Urban Design; since 2005 dean of the Network
City and Landscape. Since 2002 director of the postgraduate program „Urban
Forms. Conditions and Consequences“. Furthermore lecturing and visiting
professorships, among others at the Harvard University, at the Escuela
Técnica Superior de Arquitectura at the University of Navarra,
Pamplona, and at the Faculty of Architecture at the Politecnico in Milan.
2005 founding director (with Uberto Siola) of the Scuola superiore di
architettura urbana in Naples. 1984
exhibition "The adventure of ideas in architecture 1750 - 1980"
at the New National Gallery of Berlin (1985 under the title „L’avventura
delle idee nell’architettura 1750 - 1980“ at the Milan Triennale).
1987 exhibition "Le città immaginate: un viaggio in Italia“
(Imagined cities: a journey through Italy), mounted in the Triennale as
well (with Vittorio Savi). 1990 - 95 Director of the German Architecture
Museum in Frankfurt am Main; with numerous exhibitions, symposia, conference
series. 1994 exhibition "Rinascimento. Da Brunelleschi a Michelangelo:
La rappresentazione dell'architettura" in Palazzo Grassi in Venice
(with Henry Millon); in 1995 – 96 the exhibition was shown in the
National Gallery, Washington D.C., at the Musée des monuments historiques,
Paris, and at the Altes Museum, Berlin. 1980
- 84 scientific consultant to the International Building Exhibition Berlin
(I.B.A.) for the new construction areas. 1981 - 85 external member of
the editorial board of Casabella, Milan. 1986 - 90 deputy editor and from
1990 - 95 editor of Domus, Milan. 2000 - 05 member of the editorial committee
of “The Harvard Design Magazine”. Since
1980 own architectural practice: first in Berlin, then in Milan. Among
his most important projects: office building in Block 109, Berlin (1991-1996),
with Marlene Dörrie; housing group in Maria Lankowitz near Graz (1995-1999)
with Marlene Dörrie and Michael Regner; entrance square of the Audi
factory, Ingolstadt (1999-2001), with Wolfgang Weinzierl; urban design
planning of Novartis Campus in St. Johann, Basel, (2001 ff); underground
station Mergellina, Naples (2004ff); reshaping of the Donau banks, Regensburg
(2004 ff), with Wolfgang Weinzierl and others. Moreover member of various
jurys for architecture competitions and prizes, among them the Praemium
Imperiale, Tokyo (consultant); the Mies van der Rohe Award for European
Architecture, Barcelona (chairman) and the Green Prize for Urban Planning,
Harvard University. His most important architectural publications have all been translated into several languages; available in English are: Architecture of the 20th century in drawings, Rizzoli international, New York 1982; Architecture and city planning in the 20th century, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York 1985; Encyclopaedia of 20th century architecture, Harry N. Abrams, New York 1986; Museum Architecture in Frankfurt 1980 - 1990, Prestel, Munich 1990; Museums for a New Millenium. Concepts, Projects, Buildings (Prestel, 1999), with Angeli Sachs. February 2006
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