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Italian architect Italo Rota, whose projects included the Museo del Novecento in Milan, has died aged 70.
Italian architect Carlo Ratti, who worked with Rota on many projects, described Rota as “a great innovator – a rare designer who is not only able to come up with new answers , and be able to ask yourself new questions.”
Italo Rota dies at 70
Lotta died on Saturday in his hometown of Milan.
Born in 1953, he began his architectural career working for architect Franco Albini and spent four years as an apprentice with architect Vittorio Gregotti.
Rota graduated from the Architecture Department of the Politecnico di Milano in 1982, and then moved to Paris, where he collaborated with Italian architect Gae Aulenti on projects including the Musée d’Orsay, the renovation of the Center Pompidou Museum of Modern Art, and the lighting of Notre Dame Cathedral.
In 1996, he returned to Milan, where he founded his own studio, Italo Rota Building Office.
His best-known projects include the design of Milan’s Nueva Millennium Museum, which opened in 2010, and various projects for Roberto Cavalli, including the fashion designer’s villa in Florence.
Rota regularly collaborates with architecture studio Carlo Ratti Associati, most recently on projects including the masterplan for Rome’s bid for Expo 2030 and the Italian pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai (with three hulls on top).
Ratti described how he “became friends” with Rota while creating a project for Expo Milan 2015, and their friendship developed into a long-term partnership after working together at Expo 2020 Dubai.
The pair also designed a house around a 10-meter-tall tree in the Italian countryside and used more than 500 meters of copper pipe to create a sculpture supporting renewable energy equipment in the Brera Botanical Gardens for Milan Design Week 2022.
“We’ve done all the projects together over the past five years,” Ratti said.
“In architecture, we are passionate about the same themes: interaction with people, new design processes and ultimately a greater integration between the natural and artificial worlds,” continues Ratti.
“Italo loved to play with remarkable depth, and the way we met and collaborated in the last years of his career often led me to think that design, in its best moments, can rival one of the capacities of great poetry: equally comprehensive and touching, oval, sparkling.”
Rota’s last project was the exhibition “Italian Painting Today” at the Triennale Museum in Milan, which closed in February.
Stefanani Boeri, Italian architect and president of the Milan Triennale, said: “Today we have lost Italo Rota, an absolute protagonist of Italian architecture and culture.”
“We will miss his powerful, fresh ideas, his contradictory perspectives, his rich and always wise writings.”
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