Carlo Mollino (Turin, 6 May 1905 - Turin, 27 August 1973) was an Italian architect, designer, photographer, and pilot. Born in Turin, the only son of engineer Eugenio Mollino, in 1925 he enrolled in the Faculty of Engineering and, after a year, moved to the Royal School of Architecture of the Albertina Academy of Turin, later became the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic of Turin, where he graduated in July 1931 and where he carried out much of his activity. Extraordinary case of designer not related to industry, Mollino was photographer, graphic designer, engineer, set designer, great sportsman and great skier, so much so that he was appointed director of Coscuma (commission of schools and ski instructors) and to write, in 1951, The treatise Introduzione al discesismo from whose pages all his restless, imaginative and bizarre personality emerges. In addition, in 1953, he founded the Institute of Mountain Architecture, to which is linked much of his projects. Among his most famous architectural projects in Turin: the Società Ippica Torinese, Turin (1937, demolished in 1960); the auditorium hall of the RAI (1948); the war memorial for freedom (1948); the INA-Casa district of Corso Sebastopoli; the Chamber of Commerce (1964, completed in 1972); Casa Fiorini (1957, finished in 1961); renovation of the Turin-Aeritalia Airport building (1958); reconstruction of the Teatro Regio, with M. Zavelani Rossi and C. Graffi (1965, inaugurated in 1973).
Other works outside Turin: Union Provincial Farmers, Cuneo (1933); Slittovia del lago Nero, Sauze d'Oulx (1946); Villa Cattaneo Agra (Varese, 1952); house for apartments, Aosta (1953); Casa del Sole, Cervinia (1955).
Mollino died suddenly in 1973, while still in business, in his studio.
