Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani

He practices and promotes a formally disciplined, timelessly classic, and aesthetically sustainable form of architecture, one without modernist or postmodernist extravagances.

Between the years of 1974 to 1980, Lampugnani was a research assistant at the Institute for Principles of Modern Architecture at the University of Stuttgart at the chair of Jürgen Joedicke.

Following from 1981 to 1983, Lampugnani also held a research fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies at Columbia University in New York.

From 1984 to 1985, he was a visiting professor at the Department of Architecture, at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Lampugnani developed his own architectural approach in the circles of Vittorio Gregotti, Aldo Rossi and especially Giorgio Grassi, but also Oswald Mathias Ungers and Josef Paul Kleihues.

He propagates a formally disciplined, timelessly classic and also aesthetically sustainable architecture without modernist or postmodernist extravagances.

Lampugnani opened his first architectural practice first in Berlin in 1980, later in Milan (Studio di Architettura) and in Zurich (Baukontor Architekten, with partner Jens Bohm).

In 1987, the exhibition «Le città immaginate: un viaggio in Italia» (Imagined cities: a journey through Italy) followed, also at the Palazzo della Triennale (with Vittorio Savi).

Lampugnani was director of the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main from 1990 to 1995, where he organized numerous exhibitions, symposia and lecture series.

Da Brunelleschi a Michelangelo: La rappresentazione dell'architettura» in 1994 at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice (with Henry Millon).

Between 1995 and 1996, the exhibition travelled to the National Gallery of Art (Washington DC), the Musée des Monuments historiques (Paris), and the Altes Museum (Berlin).