Massimo Scolari
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Massimo Scolari (Novi Ligure, march 31st 1943), is an italian architect, painter and designer.
Graduated in architecture in Milan in 1969. In 1973 became professor of History of Architecture in Palermo, and of Drawing at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV). Between 1975 and 1993 he was visiting professor in various universities among which: Cornell University, Cooper Union N.Y., Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies N.Y., Technische Universität Vienna, Harvard University, Cambridge. From 2006 is Davenport Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture. Editor of “Controspazio”, “Casabella”, “Lotus International”, director of “Eidos” (1989-1995) and the series of architectural books by Franco Angeli (1973-1988). From 1989 he designed furniture for Giorgetti where he was also the art director until 2001. He has held exhibitions in Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States. His works are in the permanent collections at the MoMA (New York), at the Teheran Museum of Contemporary Art, at the Deutsches Architektur Museum (Frankfurt) and at the Centre Pompidou (Paris). He realised installations for the Venice Biennale 1980, 1984, 1991, 1996, and 2004 and at the Milan Triennials in 1973 and 1986. His studies on representation were published by Marsilio in Il disegno obliquo (2005).