Mario Bellini was born in 1935 in Milan and is an internationally renowned architect and designer. He graduated in architecture in 1959 from the Milan Polytechnic with such high-caliber professors as Gio Ponti. In the 1960s he began his activity in the world of design, opening a professional studio. After working as director of design in La Rinascente, he became chief design consultant at the Olivetti company from 1963, where the creations of his first personal computer in the world, namely the P101 and the famous Praxis 35 and 45 typewriter, are remembered. He was editor of Domus magazine and over the years has designed countless art, design and architecture exhibitions both in Italy and abroad. He has received the Golden Compass Award eight times and 25 of his works are in the permanent design collection of MoMA New York. Since the 1980s Mario Bellini has devoted himself almost entirely to architecture, designing numerous buildings around the world from the Portello Fairgrounds in Milan to the Tokyo Design Center in Japan. In 2015 the Milan Triennale awarded him the Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Architecture and in 2017 dedicated a solo exhibition to him.