Mario Bellini

Mario Bellini, born in 1935 in Milan, is an internationally renowned architect and designer. He graduated in architecture in 1959 at the Polytechnic of Milan, where he was a student of Gio Ponti. In the 1960s he began his activity in the world of design, opening a professional studio. From 1963 he became chief design consultant at the Olivetti company. He has received the Golden Compass Award eight times and twenty-five of his works are in the permanent design collection of MoMA in New York. Since the 1980s Bellini has dedicated himself almost entirely to architecture, designing numerous buildings all over the world.