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 in the permanent collection of MoMA in New York, which dedicated a retrospective to him in 1987. He was editor of Domus magazine (1985-1991). He has designed numerous art and architecture exhibitions both in Italy and abroad, including the latest ones at the Palazzo Reale with Giotto's masterpieces (2016) and at the Museo del '900 dedicated to Margherita Sarfatti (2018-2019).

In 2015, the Milan Triennale assigned him the Medaglia d'oro award for career in Architecture. In 2017, it dedicated a retrospective exhibition to him, which now beginning its world tour: first step in Moscow (March 2019). Since 1980, he has been devoting himself primarily to architecture. Buildings designed and built include the Portello District of Fiera Milano, the Villa Erba Exhibition and Convention Center 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 the City of Bologna, the building for the Department of Islamic Arts at the Louvre in Paris, and the new Convention Center in Milan, the largest in Europe. At Rome-Fiumicino, the T3 International Airterminal was recently completed, while the new Headquarters of Generali Group in Trieste has just opened.