Goodbye to Italo Rota, the architect of the Museum of the Twentieth Century.

He died at Milano, where the architect of the twentieth century museum was born in 1953 Italo Rota. He tells theHandle the president of Triennale Milano Stefano Boeri.

One of the most interesting and multifaceted figures on the Italian architectural scene, Italo Rota graduated in 1982 from the Polytechnic of Milano, training first at the studio of Franco Albini and later in that of Vittorio Gregotti.

At the end of the eighties, he moved to Paris, where he signed the renovation of the Museum of Modern Art at the Center Pompidou with Gae Aulenti, the new rooms of the French school on the Cour Carré of the Louvre, the lighting of the cathedral Our Lady and along the Seine and the renovation of the center of Nantes.

He returned to Italy in the mid-nineties and the activity of his new Milanese studio began to range from masterplan to product design, in projects characterized by the choice of innovative materials, cutting-edge technologies and in-depth research on light.

Standing out in his production are the promenade of the Foro Italico in Palermo (Gold Medal for Italian Architecture for Public Spaces 2006) and the Museum of the Twentieth Century in the Palazzo dell'Arengario in Piazza Duomo a Milano (2010).

In addition to France, there are numerous works created internationally, such as the Casa Italiana alla Columbia University, New York (1997); the Hindu Temple a Mumbai (2009); the Chameleon Club at Byblos Hotel, Dubai (2011)

«With the passing of Italo Rota we lose a master of Italian architecture and design. From theatrical sets to the creations of museums and public spaces such as the Museo del Novecento, Rota has been able to combine beauty and functionality, giving life to innovative works of great emotional impact, with particular attention to the valorisation of cultural heritage and the creation of spaces of meeting and dialogue". This was stated by the Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano.