Mario Bellini & Raffaele Cipolletta
Mario Bellini
Mario Bellini is a world-renowned architect and designer. He has received the Compasso d'Oro Award eight times, and 25 of his works are part of the permanent collection at the MoMA in New York, which dedicated a retrospective to him in 1987. He served as the director of Domus magazine from 1985 to 1991. Bellini has designed numerous art and architecture exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including major recent ones at the Palazzo Reale featuring Giotto's masterpieces (2016) and at the Museo del '900, dedicated to Margherita Sarfatti (2018-2019). In 2015, the Triennale di Milano awarded him the Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Architecture, and in 2017, it organized a retrospective exhibition on his work, which has since begun a world tour, with its first stop in Moscow (March 2019). Since 1980, Bellini has primarily focused on architecture. His completed projects include the Portello district of Fiera Milano, the Exhibition and Congress Center of Villa Erba in Cernobbio (Como), the Tokyo Design Centre in Japan, the America Headquarters of Natuzzi in the United States, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the Deutsche Bank Headquarters in Frankfurt, the Museum of the History of Bologna, the building for the Department of Islamic Art at the Louvre in Paris, and the new Milan Convention Center, the largest in Europe. Recently, the international Air Terminal T3 at Rome-Fiumicino was completed, and the new Headquarters of the Generali Group in Trieste was inaugurated. His ongoing projects include the New Polytechnic School of Genoa (2006-2020), a large hotel and residential complex on Virgin Gorda Island in the British Virgin Islands (2018-2020), and the new RAI headquarters in Milan (2018-2020). He is also working on several projects in the planning phase, such as the Bin-County Project, a new city for entertainment, sports, and culture in the Harbin district of China (2018-2023), and Oasis, a large sports, cultural, and residential complex in the Gulf countries (2014-2022).
Raffaele Cipolletta
He was born in San Marco la Catola (in the province of Foggia) on 05/10/1961. He graduated in Architecture at the Milan Polytechnic, Faculty of Architecture in 1985. He’s in the Register of Professional Architects, Curators, Planners and Landscape Architects of the Province of Como with the no. 1798. Working as a freelancer since 1987 with the architect Mario Bellini, he has worked to implement his skills, following various commitments of architectural design, technical design, operational and artistic management of the construction site. During his career, he was Team Leader with Mario Bellini up to covering the role of Manager Director, following complex and large projects in Italy and abroad, including Museums, Public Libraries, residential projects, Office Complexes and Exhibitions. During his collaboration with the architect Bellini has also taken part in product projects with the best international companies, providing his own experience in the field gained during his career, to best solve the projects managed.
