Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani

Lampugnani attended the Swiss primary school in Rome, then the German grammar school in Rome. From 1970 to 1973, he studied architecture at the University La Sapienza in Rome as well as at the University of Stuttgart. Lampugnani graduated in 1973 and completed his doctorate at the University of Stuttgart in 1977. In 1983, he acquired the Dottore in Architettura at the University of Rome.

Lampugnani opened his first architectural practice first in Berlin in 1980, later in Milan (Studio di Architettura) and in Zurich (Baukontor Architekten, with partner Jens Bohm). Among his most important projects: • 2015 commercial building at Schiffbauplatz in Zurich, with Jens Bohm • 2014 parking garage in East Hanover, New Jersey • 2008 underground railway station Mergellina in Naples • 2008 office building at the Fabrikstrasse 12 on the Novartis Campus in Basel • 2007 master plan of the Richti complex in Wallisellen as well as planning of the open spaces and residential building Konradhof, with Jens Bohm • 2004 reshaping of the Danube banks in Regensburg (2004ff), with Wolfgang Weinzierl and others • 2001 urban design master plan of the Novartis Campus in St. Johann, Basel (2001ff) • 2001 entrance square of the Audi factory in Ingolstadt (1999–2001), with Wolfgang Weinzierl • 1999 housing group in Maria Lankowitz (Steiermark), with Marlene Dörrie und Michael Regner • 1996 office building in Block 109 in Berlin, with Marlene Dörrie These and other projects have been published in various monographs (Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Urban Architectures, Quart Verlag, 2006; Urban Design as Craft, gta Verlag, 2011) and in the most significant architecture magazines, amongst them Casabella, Domus and Lotus international, Milan, Arquitectura Viva, Madrid, and AMC (Architecture, Mouvement, Continuité), Paris. He was member of various juries for architecture competitions and prizes, among them the Praemium Imperiale, Tokyo (consultant); the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture, Barcelona (chairman) and the Green Prize for Urban Planning, Harvard University.

1984 Lampugnani directed the exhibition «The adventure of ideas in architecture. Architecture and philosophy since the industrial revolution 1750 - 1980» at the New National Gallery of Berlin. (1985 the exhibition was shown under the title «L'avventura delle idee nell'architettura 1750-1980» at Palazzo della Triennale in Milan.) In 1987, the exhibition «Le città immaginate: un viaggio in Italia» (Imagined cities: a journey through Italy) followed, also at the Palazzo della Triennale (with Vittorio Savi). Lampugnani was director of the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main from 1990 to 1995, where he organized numerous exhibitions, symposia and lecture series. In addition, he curated the exhibition «Rinascimento. Da Brunelleschi a Michelangelo: La rappresentazione dell'architettura» in 1994 at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice (with Henry Millon). Between 1995 and 1996, the exhibition travelled to the National Gallery of Art (Washington DC), the Musée des Monuments historiques (Paris), and the Altes Museum (Berlin). Several of his architectural works have repeatedly been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at the Venice Biennale.

Lampugnani was a scientific consultant of the Internationale Bauaustellung Berlin, die Neubaugebiete (International Architecture Exhibition, Berline, development areas) from 1980 to 1984. During approximately the same time, he was a member of the editorial board of Casabella in Milan. Between 1986 and 1990 he was the deputy editor, from 1990 to 1996 the sole editor of "Domus". He was a member of the editorial board of "The Harvard Design Magazine". In 2010 he was the consultant for urban design and architecture for the reconstruction of L'Aquila. He's been writing for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) on a regular basis since 1995.

• Architektur und Städtebau des 20. Jahrhunderts. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Stuttgart 1980. • Architecture of the 20th century in drawings: utopia and reality. Rizzoli international, New York 1982. • Architecture and city planning in the 20th century. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York 1985. • Encyclopedia of 20th century architecture. Harry N. Abrams, New York 1986. • Architektur als Kultur - die Ideen und die Formen: Aufsätze 1970–1985. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1986. • Museum Architecture in Frankfurt 1980 - 1990. Prestel, Munich 1990. • Moderne Architektur in Deutschland 1900–1950: Reform und Tradition. Ed., with Romana Schneider, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Stuttgart 1992. • Moderne Architektur in Deutschland 1900–1950: Expressionismus und Neue Sachlichkeit. Ed., with Romana Schneider, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Stuttgart 1992. • Die Modernität des Dauerhaften. Essays zu Stadt, Architektur und Design. Wagenbach Verlag, Berlin 1996. • Museums for a New Millennium: Concepts, Projects, Buildings. With Angeli Sachs, Prestel, Munich 1999. • Die Architektur, die Tradition und der Ort. Regionalismen in der europäischen Stadt. Ed., Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (DVA), Stuttgart 2000. • Verhaltene Geschwindigkeit. Die Zukunft der telematischen Stadt. Wagenbach Verlag, Berlin 2002. • Architekturtheorie 20. Jahrhundert. Positionen, Programme, Manifeste. Ed., with Ruth Hanisch, Ulrich Maximilian Schumann and Wolfgang Sonne, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit 2004. • Stadtformen. Die Architektur der Stadt zwischen Imagination und Konstruktion. Ed., with Matthias Noell, gta Verlag, Zurich 2005. • Stadtarchitekturen / Urban Architectures. Quart Verlag, Luzern 2006.. • Novartis Campus: A Contemporary Work Environment. Premises, Elements, Perspectives. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2009. • Die Stadt im 20. Jahrhundert. 2 volumes. Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2010. • Urban Design as Craft. Eleven conversations and seven projects 1999–2011. gta Verlag, Zurich 2011. • Anthologie zum Städtebau. Volume I-III. Ed., with Katia Frey and Eliana Perotti, Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2005, 2008 and 2014. • Enzyklopädie zum gestalteten Raum. Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Stadt und Landschaft. Ed., with Konstanze Sylva Domhardt and Rainer Schützeichel, gta Verlag, Zurich 2014. • Radikal normal. Positionen zur Architektur der Stadt. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2015.. • Voreingenommene Erzählungen. Architekturgeschichte als Ideengeschichte. gta Verlag, Zürich 2016.. • Manuale zum Städtebau. Die Systematisierung des Wissens von der Stadt 1870-1950. Ed., with Katrin Albrecht, Helene Bihlmaier und Lukas Zurfluh, DOM publishers, 2017.. • Die Stadt von der Neuzeit bis zum 19. Jahrhundert. Urbane Entwürfe in Europa und Nordamerika. Wagenbach, 2017.. • Die Stadt als Raumentwurf. Theorien und Projekte im Städtebau seit dem Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Ed., with Rainer Schützeichel, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2017.. • Atlas zum Städtebau. Ed., with Harald R. Stühlinger und Markus Tubbesing, Hirmer, 2018.. • Bedeutsame Belanglosigkeiten. Kleine Dinge im Stadtraum. Wagenbach Verlag, Berlin 2019.