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Pier Giacomo Castiglioni (22 April 1913 – 27 November 1968) was an Italian architect and designer.[1]

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Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
Castiglioni in 1955
Born	22 April 1913 Milan, Italy
Died	27 November 1968 (1968-11-28) (aged 55) Milan
Nationality	Italian
Education	Politecnico di Milano
Known for	Architecture, design
Spouse	Maria Coduri de Cartosio
Awards	Compasso d'Oro
Website	piergiacomocastiglioni.it

Life

Castiglioni was born on 22 April 1913 in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. He was the second son of the sculptor Giannino Castiglioni and his wife Livia Bolla. His elder brother Livio [it] and younger brother Achille were also architects.[1]

Castiglioni studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and graduated in 1937.[1] In that year[1] or in 1938[2] he started an architectural design practice with his brother Livio and Luigi Caccia Dominioni.[2] Amongst the designs produced by the practice were the first Italian bakelite radio.[3] The studio closed in 1940. Castiglioni married Maria Coduri de Cartosio on 30 December 1942.[1]

After the Second World War he and Livio worked with their younger brother Achille, who had graduated in architecture in 1944.[2] Much of their work was in product and exhibition design, but they also carried out a number of architectural projects, including the reconstruction in 1952–53 of the Palazzo della Permanente [it], which had been destroyed by bombing in 1943.[1]

Livio Castiglioni left the practice in 1952[2] or 1953[1]. From then until Pier Giacomo died – in Milan, on 27 November 1968 – he and Achille worked as a team; most of their designs are not attributable to either one of them.[1][2] Products designed by the Castiglioni brothers in the post-war years included the "Turbino" and "Arco" lamps and the "Spalter" vacuum cleaner.[4] Working alone,^{[citation needed]} Pier Giacomo designed the "Mezzadro" stool for the Zanotta company based Marcel Duchamp's concept of "ready made". However, it was not manufactured until 1971, three years after Castiglioni's death.[3]

In 1956 he was one of the founding members of the ADI [it] in Milan and also taught life drawing at the Politecnico di Milano from 1964 to 1968.[1]

See also

• Studio Arch. Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
• Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Museum of Modern Art collection
• "Achille e Pier Giacomo Castiglioni", RAI Television documentary, Part One (in Italian)
• "Achille e Pier Giacomo Castiglioni", RAI Television documentary, Part Two (in Italian)
• Arco Lamp assembly, short film (narration in French)

References

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