Arduino Cantafora
Arduino Cantafora (born November 8, 1945, in Milan) is an Italian-Swiss architect, painter, and writer. He was a student of Aldo Rossi.
Also recorded as Arduino Cantàfora
Arduino Cantafora
- Born
- 1945 · Milan.
- Nationality
- Italy · Switzerland
- Occupation
- painter · architect
- Education
- Polytechnic University of Milan
- Languages
- Italian
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Arduino Cantafora (born November 8, 1945, in Milan) is an Italian-Swiss architect, painter, and writer. He was a student of Aldo Rossi.
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Arduino Cantafora (born 1945) is an Italian and Swiss architect and painter. The architect was born in Milan.
Arduino Cantafora studied at Polytechnic University of Milan. The architect worked for Yale University and worked in Lausanne and Milan.
Languages used include Italian. Works by Arduino Cantafora are held at Art Institute of Chicago and Nieuwe Instituut.
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Arduino Cantafora studied at Polytechnic University of Milan. The recorded working language is Italian. Places of work recorded in the authority are Milan and Lausanne. Employment is recorded with Yale University. Work by Arduino Cantafora is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago and Nieuwe Instituut.
Cantafora graduated from the Politecnico di Milano. He became renowned for his paintings with Renaissance influence, inspired by Giorgio de Chirico. He became acquainted with Aldo Rossi, of whom he was a pupil. In the 1990s, he designed scenery for operas: Perseus and Andromeda at La Scala (1991) and Mozart's Don Giovanni in Aix-en-Provence (1993). He has taught at Yale University, IUAV, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). His work was included in an exhibition on Italian architecture at the Centre Pompidou in 2012. He is naturalized as a Swiss citizen.
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Arduino Cantafora is recorded with the occupation architect. Recorded as a citizen of Switzerland.
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1945
Arduino Cantafora was born on 8 November 1945.
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• Quindici stanze per una casa (1988) • La pomme d'Adrien (2002) • Le stanze della vita (2004) • L'architecture du corps (2006, with Charles Duboux)
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- 1.Biography of Arduino Cantafora.
- 2.Biography of Arduino Cantafora.
- 3.Arduino Cantafora at EPFL
- 4.Merjian, Ara H. “La Tendenza: Italian Architectures, 1965–1985”: Centre Pompidou, Place Georges-Pompidou: June 20, 2012 - September 10, 2012. Art Forum.
- 5.Arduino Cantàfora. Quindici stanze per una casa. Einaudi. 1988. 9788806599942.
- 6.Publications of Arduino Cantafora. EPFL.
- 7.L'architecture du corps (FNAC)
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