Gae Aulenti
General Information
Occupation: Architect
Date of Birth: January 04, 1927
Date of Death: October 31, 2012
Birth City: Palazzolo dello Stella
Birth State/Province: Lombardia
Birth Country: Italy
Resident City: Milan
Resident State/Province: Lombardia
Resident Country: Italy
Sources: "Architect known for Paris museum project." Elaine Woo, Washington Post, Nov. 5, 2012
Specialties
Subject: Refashioning historic sturctures into museums
Jobs
Employer: Facolta di Architettura, Politecnico di Milano
Title: Assistant in elements of architectural compositions courses
City: Milan
Employer: Laboratorio di Progettazione Teatrale and Prato
City: Florence
Notes: Collaboration with Luca Ronconi in the field of figurative research
Employer: Facolta di Architettura
Title: Assistant in architectural compositions courses
City: Venice
Employer: Casabella-Continuita
Title: editorial staff directed by Ernesto N. Rogers
Employer: Lotus International magazine
Title: Directional Board
Collaborators
No collaborators on record
Apprenticeships
No apprenticeships on record
Awards
Name: Commander dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres
Description: Conferred by the Minister of Culture of the Frence Republic
Name: Medaille d'Architecture
Description: from the Academy of Architecture, Paris, France
Name: Prize "Josef Hoffmann"
Description: from the Hochschule for angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Name: Grand International Prize for Italian Pavilion
Description: XIII Triennale, Milan, Italy
Date Received: 1964
Name: Dean of Architecture from the Merchandise Mart of Chicago (USA)
Name: Title of Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur
Description: conferred by the Minister of Culture of Frence Republic
Date Received: 1987
Notes: first female architect named to the order
Name: Ubu Prize
Description: for the best Italian Stage Design, Milan, Italy
Name: Special Prize for the Culture
Description: conferred by the President of the Consiglio dei Ministri of the Italian Republic
Exhibitions
Title: 10 Proposte per Milano
Description: participant, XVII Triennale
City: Milan
State: Lombardia
Country: Italy
Title: Italy: the New Domestic Landscape
City: New York
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: Le Affinita Elettive
Description: Participant- XVII Trinnale
City: Milan
State: Lombardia
Country: Italy
Title: Italian Design
Description: exhibition of home articles and furniture and Hallmark Gallery
City: New York
State: New York
Country: United States
Notable Projects
Title: Olivetti travelling exhibition
City: Paris, Baracelona, Madrid, London, Edinburgh, Tokyo
Title: Fiat Showroom
City: Bruxelles
Title: Fiat showroom
City: Turin
Title: Knoll International Showroom
City: New York
Title: Fiat showroom
City: Zurich
Title: Altana Palazzo Pucci
City: Florence
Title: Grotta Rosa - Amalfi
City: Salerno
Title: Knoll International showroom
City: Boston
Title: Villa in Cap Ferrat
Title: Home at Via Gabba
City: Milan
Title: Collector's Apartment
City: Milan
Title: Fiat Stand - Motor show
City: Turin
Title: Cadette showroom
City: Milan
Title: Christian Dior boutique
City: Paris
Title: Max Mara offices and showrooms
City: Milan
Title: Olivetti showroom
City: Paris
Title: Olivetti Showroom
City: Buenos Aires
Title: Bank Credito Emiliano
City: Bologna
Title: Italian Pavilion - XIII Triennale
City: Milan
Title: Palazzo Muti-Bussi
City: Rome
Title: Palazzina della Casiglia - Sassuolo
City: Modena
Title: Civic Museum - Prato
City: Florence
Title: S. Rossore race-course
City: Pisa
Title: College Citta degli Studi
City: Biella
Title: Invited at the competition for the ex-Italian Embassy in Berlin (Germany)
Description: won
Title: Restoration of Techint offices
City: Milan
Title: Luiss University
City: Rome
Title: Industrie Pirelli S.P.A. offices
City: Rome
Title: Invited and the International competition for the area Pirelli
City: Milan
Title: Palazzo Grassi
City: Venice
Title: Museo de l'Arte Catalana - Palau Nacional de Montjuic
City: Barcelona
Title: Pavilion for Exhibitions - Cernobbio
City: Como
Title: Invited at the International Consultation on ideas for the re-utilization of Fiat - Lingotto
City: Turin
Title: Musee d'Orsay
City: Paris
Title: Musee National d'Art Moderne - Centre G. Pompidou
City: Paris
Title: Invited at the project for the area Stazione Garibaldi
City: Milan
Title: House La Rosa - Gubbio
City: Perugia
Title: Chesa Alcyon - Suvretta St. Moritz
Title: Residential plant in Caracas
Title: Villa in Cap Ferrat
Title: House at S. Siro
City: Milan
Title: Holiday Hotel - Tonale Pass
City: Trento
Title: Villa - Parma
Title: Residential quarter wither elementary schools and Cinisello Balsamo
City: Milan
Title: Villa
City: Pisa
Title: Villa La Besozza - Paraggi
City: Genoa
Title: Villa - Formentor
Title: Directional Center in Perugia
Title: Villa in Capalbio
City: Rome
Title: Hotel in Trieste
City: Trieste
Title: Architectural Garden - Granaiolo
City: Florence
Title: Pavillon "Rodin"
City: Lugano
Title: Participant with Vico Magistretti in the competition which won for an elementary school at Meda
City: Milan
Title: Restoration Chateau de la Croe
Title: Home at San Michele di Pagana
City: Genoa
Title: Knoll International showroom
City: Milan
Title: Banca Commerciale Italiana
City: Milan
Title: Thissen Bornimisza
City: Amsterdam
Title: Homr in Torre del Grillo
City: Rome
Title: Bank at via Mengoni
City: Milan
Title: Christo Exhibition - Besana
City: Milan
Title: Aulenti's home at via Fiori Oscuri
City: Milan
Title: Mirabeau Restaurant
City: Montecarlo
Title: Banca Commerciale Italiana
City: New York
Title: Home at Tor de' Specchi
City: Rome
Title: Fiat stand - Motor show
City: Turin
Title: Home at Via Spiga
City: Milan
Title: Home at via Durini
City: Milan
Title: Marina B offices
City: Geneva
Title: Fiat show - motor show
City: Turin
Title: Fontana Arte Showroom
City: Milan
Title: Home at vie S. Valeria
City: Milan
Title: Home at Piazza Castello
City: Milan
Title: Home at Champs Elysees
City: Paris
Title: Pacific Wave (boat)
Title: Exhibition "Futurismo e Futurismi" - Palazzo Grassi
City: Venice
Title: Exhibition "Futurismo e Futurismi" - Palazzo Grassi
City: Venice
Title: Cerruti showroom
City: Paris
Title: Marina B store
Title: Exhibition "A. Stradivari"
City: Cremona
Title: Exhibition "I Fenici" - Palazzo Grassi
City: Venice
Title: Adrienne Vittadidi stores
City: Los Angeles, St. Louis and Costa Mesa
Title: "Sgarsul" rocking chair
Description: For POLTRONOVA
City: Pistoia
Title: "Stringa" sofa
Description: For POLTRONOVA
City: Pistoia
Title: "April" chair and stool
Description: For ZANOTTA
City: Milan
Title: "Locus Solus"
Description: For ZANOTTA
City: Milan
Title: "Festo" tables
City: Milan
Title: "April" armchair
Description: For ZANOTTA
City: Milan
Title: "Giova" lamp
Description: for FONTANA ARTE
City: Milan
Title: table with wheels
Description: for FONTANA ARTE
City: Milan
Title: "Parola" lamps
Description: for FONTANA ARTE
City: Milan
Title: "Nina" lamp
Description: for FONTANA ARTE
City: Milan
Title: table in crystal
Description: for FONTANA ARTE
City: Milan
Title: "Bugia" lamp
Description: for FONTANA ARTE
City: Milan
Title: "Diamanta" lamp
Description: for FONTANA ARTE
City: Milan
Title: "Jumbo" table
Description: For KNOLL INTERNATIONAL
City: Milan
Title: "Tennis" series
Description: * For KNOLL INTERNATIONAL
City: Milan
Title: furniture series
Description: For KNOLL INTERNATIONAL
City: Milan
Title: "Pipistrello" lamp
Description: For MARTINELLI LUCE
City: Lucca
Title: "Ruspa" lamp
Description: For MARTINELLI LUCE
City: Lucca
Title: "Rimorchiatore" lamp
Description: For CANDLE
City: Milan
Title: "Oracolo" and "Mezzoracolo" lamps
Description: For ARTEMIDE
City: Milan
Title: "Pileo" and "Mezzopileo" lamps
Description: For ARTEMIDE
City: Milan
Title: "Alcino" lamp
Description: For ARTEMIDE
City: Milan
Title: "Patroclo" lamp
Description: For ARTEMIDE
City: Milan
Title: furniture series
Description: For KARTELL
City: Milan
Title: Sanitary fittings
Description: For RICHARD GINORI
Title: "Otto A" handles
Description: For FUSITAL
City: Milan
Title: "Tre A" handles
Description: For FUSITAL
City: Milan
Title: universal drafting device and drawing board
Description: For ZUCOR and BIEFFE
City: Padova
Title: tea-service
Description: For ROSSI ARCANDI
City: Vicenza
Title: Sofa
Description: For B&B ITALIA
City: Como
Title: bench in marble
Description: For ULTIMA EDIZIONE
City: Massa
Title: Sofa
Description: For POLTRONA FRAU
City: Tolentino
Title: Sanitary fittings
Description: For IDEAL STANDARD
City: Milan
Title: watch, pen, pencil, and fountain-pen
Description: For LOUIS VUITTON
City: Paris
Title: Stage design
Description: Naples "Le astuzie femminili" by Cimarosa and in Paris "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" by Rossini (Theatre Odeon)
Title: Stage design
Description: "Anitre selvatica" by Ibsen (Teatro di Genova)
Title: Stage Design
Description: "Wozzeck" by Alban Berg (Teatro all Scala, Milan) conducted by Claudio Abbado
Title: Stage design
Description: "La vita e sogno" by Calderon della Barca, "Calderon" by Pasolini, "La Torre" by Hofmannstahl and "Baccanti " by Euripide at Prato
City: Florence
Title: Stage design
Description: "Opera" by Luciano Berio (Theatre de l'Opera in Lyon; Theatre des Amandriers. de Nanterre, Paris, France; Teatro Regio in Tyrin, Italy: Teatro de l'Opera
City: Rome
Title: Stage design
Description: "Donnerstag aus Licht" by Karlheinz Stockhausen (Teatro alla Scala, Milan)
Title: Stage design
Description: "La Donna del Laga" by Rossini conducted by Maurizio Pollini and Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro
Notes: used again 1983
Title: Stage design
Description: "Flud in die Anden" by Michel Vinaver (Residenztheater, Milan)
Title: Stage design
Description: "Samstag aus Licht" by Karlheinz Stockhausen (Palazzo della Sport, Milan)
Title: Stage design
Description: "Viaggio a Reims" conducted by Claudio Abbado at Rossini Opera Festival i Pesaro
Title: Stage design
Description: "Rigoletto" - "Fanciulla del West" - "Cavalleria Rusticana" - "Pagliacci" (Rocca Brancaleone, Ravenna)
Title: Stage design
Description: "Viaggio a Reims" (Teatro alla Scala, Milan) conducted by Claudio Abbado
Title: Stage design
Description: "Tsar Saltan" (Teatro Romolo Valli - Reggio Emilia; Teatro Lirico - Milan)
Education
Institution: Facolta di Architettua-Politencico in Milan, Italy
Licensing
No licenses on record
Professional Affiliations
Organization: American Society of Interior Designers
Role: Honorary member
Organization: Movimento Studi per l'Architecttura
Role: member
Organization: Associazione per il Disegno Industriale
Role: member
Notes: Nominated Vice-President; 1966
Organization: Executive Board of Triennale
Role: member
Notes: Milan, Italy
Organization: Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome, Italy
Role: Accademico Corrispondente
Notes: Became Accademico in Nationali Architetti class in 1987 and Accademico Nazionale in 1988
Publications By
Title: Gae Aulenti e il Museo d'Orsay
Publication: Electa
City: Milan
Title: Progetto Bicocca
Publisher: Electa
City: Milan
Title: various essays and articles
Publication: Casabella and Lotus
Title: Il Quartetto della Maledizione
Publisher: Electa
City: Milan
Title: Venti progetti per il futuro del Lingooto
Publisher: Estas Libri
City: Milan
Title: Il Laboratorio di Prato
Publisher: Ubulibri
City: Milan
Title: Catalogue Gae Aulenti
Publisher: Electa
City: Milan
Publications About
Title: Gae Aulenti
Author: Lamia Doumato
Publisher: Vance Bibliographies
Notes: August 1987
Title: Gae Aulenti
Author: Margherita Petrazan
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Notes: December 1997
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