Gaetana ( Gae ) Aulenti was born December 4, 1927 in Palazzolo dello Stella , in the province of Udine , daughter of Aldo Aulenti , from Apulia and Virginia Joy, Neapolitan Calabrian origins . Her father was born in Acri , Calabria , son of Joseph Aulenti , Reedbed born in Bari in 1865. SHe graduated in architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan in 1953 , where she obtained a license to practice . Gae Aulenti trained as an architect in Milan in the fifties , where Italian architecture is engaged in the quest for historical and cultural recovery of the architectural values of the past and the existing built environment that will feed into the movement Neoliberty . The Aulenti part of this path, which arises as a reaction to rationalism . From 1955 to 1965 a member of the editorial staff of Casabella - continuity under the leadership of Ernesto Nathan Rogers. On the university s assistant before Samonà Joseph ( 1960-1962 ) at the Department of Architectural Composition at the University Institute of Architecture in Venice , and shortly after ( 1964-1969 ) the same Ernesto Nathan Rogers at the Department of Architectural Composition at the Polytechnic of Milan. At that time she met by chance the young Renzo Piano , undertook to conduct a search for the chair of Rogers. 1965 is her famous table lamp Bat, designed as site-specific for the Olivetti showroom that achieves the same time in Paris. Shortly after , the same Olivetti showroom draw in Buenos Aires. The collaboration with the renowned producer of typewriters gives her a certain notoriety , so that Gianni Agnelli shortly after the call to entrust the renovation of his apartment in Milans Brera district . The two become a friendship that will last a lifetime and for Lambs Gae Aulenti conceive numerous projects. In 1972 he participated in the exhibition Italian note : The New Domestic Landscape , organized by Emilio Ambasz at MoMA along with numerous other emerging designers and architects , including Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper , Joe Colombo , Ettore Sottsass , Gaetano Pesce , Archizoom , Superstudio Group Strum and 9999. Herself used to say, to see its architecture in close relationship and interconnection with the existing urban environment , which is becoming almost its shape -generating , looking for, with this , the transfer of architectural space in its multiplicity and intensity of the elements , that define the urban universe . From 1974 to 1979 he was a member of the Steering Committee of the magazine Lotus International , then it makes artistic experiences and from 1976 to 1978 worked with Luca Ronconi in Prato at Design Workshop Theatre . In 1979 , she was entrusted with the artistic direction of Fontana Arte , with whom she had already worked in the past. Are produced lamps and decorative objects still in the catalog. Among the most significant contributors appear Piero Castiglioni , Pierluigi Cerri, Daniela Puppa and Franco Raggi. she has a long relationship with Carlo Ripa di Meana, where it remained for its proximity to define what craxismo deleterious . In 1984 he was appointed correspondent of the National Academy of San Luca in Rome, while from 1995 to 1996 was president of the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera . In 2005 he formed the Gae Aulenti Associates Architects . SHe died October 31, 2012 in Milan at the age of 84 years. Before his death on October 16, was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award she has received from the Triennale. In an official statement , the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano expressed his condolences for the death dellAulenti , Remembering how : Leading player in the history of contemporary architecture, highly appreciated worldwide for her creative talent and , in particular, for the extraordinary ability to retrieve the values of cultural heritage and urban environment 7 December 2012 was inaugurated and dedicated to his name the new large circular plaza in the center of the complex Tower of Unicredit in Milan. peanutsfromitaly.blogspot.it/2013/12/gae-aulenti.html
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