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Born in Bergamo in 1922. In 1938 he began working with the sculptor Marino Marini in Monza, and then took a degree at the IUAV in Venice, beginning his activity as an architect in the studios of Giulio Minoletti, Guglielmo Ulrich and Gaetano Scolari in Milan until 1950. From 1951 to 1979 he built his first works in Milan, on Via Varese and Via Volta, and was invited by the AIA (American Insitute of Architects) to participate in the R.S. Reynolds Memorial Award. During this period he designed residential complexes, public and industrial buildings. In 1979 he began to work with Alias, designing the Spaghetti Chair and the Spaghetti Stool which became part of the permanent collection of MoMA NY in 1984, and of the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein in Germany in 1994. For Alias, in 1983, he also designed the Out Door seating collection. Since 1984 he has been director of the Workshop of urban planning, architecture and industrial design of SCP (Società Cooperativa di Progettazione) of Genoa, constructing works in Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Tunisia, Cape Verde, Argentina, Costa Rica, Guatemala. From 1997 to 2001 he received the IN/ARCH prize for the career, and several exhibitions have been organized of his works.
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