biografia di Achille CASTIGLIONI (1918-2002)
Personal data
Birth : 02/16/1918 - Milan MI Lombardy, Italy
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : Italy
Address
Milan MI Lombardy, ItalyEducation
1944 : Facoltà di Architettura e Politecnico (Diploma) – Via Durando 38 A – Milan MI, Italy
Professional data
Work and Life
1968:End of continuous collaboration with his brother Pier Giacomo because of the latter’s death.
1952:End of part-time collaboration with his brother Livio.
1947:Begins collaboration with his brothers Pier Giacomo and Livio.
1944:He is freelance architect and designer with a studio in Piazza Castello.
Prizes
1960
1960 : Il Compasso d’Oro – Milan MI, Italy
Awarded by : ADI Associazione per il Disegno Industriale – Milan MI, Italy
1955
1955 : Il Compasso d’Oro – Milan MI, Italy
Awarded by : ADI Associazione per il Disegno Industriale – Milan MI, Italy
Other professions
1970 – 1977 : Professor – Design
Dipartimento di Progettazione Architettonica – Politecnico – Turin TO, Italy
1981 – 1986 : Professor – Interior architecture
Dipartimento di Progettazione Architettonica – Politecnico – Turin TO, Italy
Affiliated to an association
1956 : ADI Associazione per il Disegno Industriale – Milan MI, Italy
1985 : Art Center College of Design – 1700 Lida Street – Pasadena CA, United States
Work
Categorie and medium
Sculpture-Volume : Installation - Object
Furniture-Design :
Works
7000 trays | |
Date of creation : 1993 Medium : Object Materials : plastic-steel | |
Taraxacum 88 | |
Date of creation : 1988 Medium : Object Materials : aluminium Size : 80 cm | |
Aoy | |
Date of creation : 1975 Medium : Object Technical data : floor lamp | |
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
Solo exhibitions
1997
Vitra Design Museum – Weil am Rhein, Germany
1997
Design !
MoMA Museum of Modern Art – New York NY, United States
10/16/1997 – 01/06/1998
1996
Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea – Bergamo BG, Italy
1996
1985
Achille Castiglioni Designer
Akademie der Künste – Berlin, Germany
03/1985
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
Group exhibitions
2000
Fifty Years of Italian and German Design
Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland – Bonn, Germany
06/30/2000 – 11/12/2000
Bibliography (Selected)
On the artist
Books
2001
Art Contemporain : un choix de 200 oeuvres du Fonds national d’art contemporain, (1985-1999)
Participant: Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication – 3 rue Valois – Paris, France
Participant: DAP Délégation aux arts plastiques – 27, avenue de l’Opéra – Paris, France
Participant: FIACRE Fonds d’Incitation à la Création – Centre National des Arts Plastiques – Département du soutien à la création et à la diffusion 27 avenue de l’Opéra – Paris, France
Publisher: Editions du Chêne – 43 quai Grenelle – Paris, France
10/2001
ISBN : 2842773373
2000
The International Design Yearbook 15
Author: Hudson Jennifer – London, United Kingdom
Author: Andrew Susan – London, United Kingdom
2000
ISBN : 0-7892-0638-2
1994
Italian Design
Publisher: Taschen – Hohenzollernring 53 – Cologne, Germany
1994
1991
Techniques Discrètes : Le design mobilier en Italie 1980-1990.
Publisher: Electa Editore – Via Caracciolo 13 – Naples NA, Italy
Author: Antonelli Paola – Milan MI, Italy
Author: De Giorgi Manolo – Milan MI, Italy
1991