Biography
Angelo Mangiarotti was born in Milan, Italy in 1929. He became famous for his work in the field of Urban Planning, Architecture and Design and received significant recognition in Italy and abroad. He worked for many different designers, including Cassina and Poltronova Snaidero, as well as others. In 1989 he founded the Mangiarotti & Associates in Tokyo.
In 1948, Angelo Mangiarotti graduated from the Architecture School of Politecnico di Milano. He moved to the United States in 1953 and started working in Chicago as a visiting professor for the Illinois Institute of Technology. During his time at Illinois Institute of Technology, Mangiarotti met Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Konrad Wachsmann, people instrumental in his personal and professional growth.
Two years later, Mangiarotti went back to Italy and opened his own architectural firm (with Bruno Morassutti in Milan until 1960).
Angelo Mangiarotti taught at Istituto Superiore di Disegno Industriale of Venice (1963–64), University of Hawaii (1970), Ecole Politecnique Fédérale of Losanna (1974), University of Adelaide and South Australian Institute of Technology of Adelaide (1976), Architecture of Palermo (1982), Architecture of Florence (1983), and Architecture of Politecnico di Milano (1989–90).
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