Massimo Scolari (1943). Graduate 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 a 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 in various universities among which: Cornell University, Cooper Union N.Y., Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies N.Y., Technische Universität Vienna, Harvard University, Cambridge. From 2006 is 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), of the Teheran Museum of Contemporary Art, of the Deutsches Architektur Museum (Frankfurt) and of the Centre Pompidou (Paris). He realized installations for the Venice Biennials 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 has 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 is the recipient of the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York.
DETAILED BIOGRAPHY
| 1943 | Was born in Novi Ligure on March 31st, after his family moved there from Milan to escape the heavy allied bombings. |
| 1969 | Graduates in Architecture at Milan’s Polytechnic |
| Becomes member of the editorial staff and editor of Controspazio magazine | |
| 1973 | Becomes Associate Professor of History of Architecture in Palermo and of Drawing at Venice’s IUAV |
| Becomes the editor of the Collana di Architettura series of books by Franco Angeli Editore | |
| Leaves Controspazio magazine | |
| 1976 | Visiting critic at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York |
| Visiting professor at Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura, Barcelona | |
| 1977 | Visiting professor at The Cooper Union, New York |
| Becomes member of the editorial staff at Lotus International magazine | |
| 1982 | Becomes external member of the editorial staff of Casabella magazine |
| 1983 | Wins Associate Fellowship at Venice’s IUAV |
| Visiting professor at the Royal College of Art, London | |
| Visiting professor at the Technische Universitat, Wien | |
| 1984 | Visiting professor at the Technische Universitat, Wien |
| 1986 | Wins a Chair of Professor at Venice’s IUAV |
| Participates at the Milan Triennale | |
| Arthur Rotch Visiting Professor at Harvard University, Cambridge | |
| Becomes editor of Eidos, magazine of the arts, literature and music | |
| 1987 | Arthur Rotch Visiting Professor at Harvard University, Cambridge |
| 1988 | Becomes director of Eidos magazine |
| Begins a collaboration with Giorgetti as furniture designer and Art Director | |
| Arthur Rotch Visiting Professor at Harvard University, Cambridge | |
| Resigns from editor at Franco Angeli Editore | |
| 1992 | Leaves Casabella magazine’s editorial staff |
| International scientific committee member of the Bureau de la Recherche Architecturale et du Plan Construction et Architecture, Paris. | |
| 1993 | Visiting professor at the Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen. |
| 1994 | International scientific committee member of the exhibition Renaissance – From Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: the representation of Architecture Palazzo Grassi, Venice. |
| 1995 | Eidos magazine stops |
| Becomes Vice Dean at Venice’s IUAV | |
| 2001 | Resigns from University |
| Gains a pilot’s license | |
| 2006 | Davenport Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture, New Haven |
| 2006 “Crossing Architecture”, Public Lecture at the Yale School of Architecture, New Haven (Connecticut) | |
| 2007 | Davenport Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture, New Haven |
| Skira publishes a monograph on occasion of his personal exhibition at the Civic Museum in Riva del Garda | |
| 2008 | Davenport Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture, New Haven |
| 2010 | Davenport Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture, New Haven |
| 2012 | Davenport Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture, New Haven |