Early Life and Influences
Rosselli grew up in Milano, surrounded by a vibrant cultural environment with people such as Gio Ponti, Giorgio De Chirico and Indro Montanelli in the roaring 1960s and 70s that made Milano the centre of new design and architecture. His childhood landscape consisted of a very lively and diverse architectural environment, moving between the medieval castle of Milan (Sforza Castle), the post war designs of Ernesto Rogers, the Alvar Alto inspired house designed by Hans Fritz where he spent some years of his adolescence and visits to buildings by Vico Magistretti, Caccia Dominioni, Giuseppe Terragni and Gio Ponti. He learnt from his surrounds to appreciate the pluralism and the coexistence of architecture of all ages and styles.
In Lausanne he studied at the Ecole Politechnique Federale (EPFL) a well-resourced university that managed to attract all the top architect of the time as guest professors – from Kenneth Frampton to Rafael Moneo and Alvaro Siza, with Umberto Riva being Luigi’s thesis mentor.
A few years of his training were spent in the practice of Mario Botta (1979) in Switzerland and under Romaldo Giurgola in his Mitchell Giurgola office in New York (1980). He then moved with the firm to Canberra where he contributed to the design of the Parliament House. Three different experiences that taught him how to have a holistic approach to design (from Spoon to City) in the case of Mario Botta, a humanist approach with Giurgola and the role of democracy in architecture in the case of Giurgola and Thorp in Canberra.
After receiving a Master of Architecture (1984) in Lausanne (First Prize SIA) with a thesis on Eclecticism and a project for a Hotel on the Simpton Pass, Luigi went back to Australia where he opened his own practice in 1985. The practice started as a one man show and has grown slowly over the years to a maximum team of 16. It has formed over the years a local reputation of well managed projects, good design and discretion that has attracted the most successful Australians to commission houses and other buildings.
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