Collection: Massimo Scolari

Massimo Scolari (1943). Graduated in architecture in Milan in 1969. In 1973 he started teaching History of Architecture in Palermo and History and Technique of Drawing at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV). He became Associate Professor in 1983 and Full Professor in 1986. His studies on representation were published by Marsilio in Il disegno obliquo (2005). Between 1975 and 1993 he was Visiting Professor at various universities including Cornell University, Cooper Union N.Y., Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies N.Y., Technische Universität Vienna, Harvard University, Cambridge. Since 2006 he has been 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 to 2011 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 of the MoMa (New York), the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, the Deutsches Architektur Museum (Frankfurt), and the Centre Pompidou (Paris). He created installations for the Venice Biennials in 1980, 1984, 1991, 1996, and 2004, and at the Milan Triennials in 1973 and 1986.

In 2001 he resigned from the Italian university. He gained a pilot’s license in the same year. In 2007 Skira published a monograph on the occasion of his personal exhibition at the Civic Museum in Riva del Garda, now translated into English for the Exhibition at the Yale School of Architecture (February-May 2012) and at the Cooper Union (October-November 2012). In 2014 he received the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York.