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Gae Aulenti | |
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Born | Gaetana Aulenti December 4, 1927 Palazzolo dello Stella, Italy |
Died | October 31, 2012 Milan, Italy | (aged 84)
Known for | transforming historic public buildings into world-renowned museum spaces |
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Gaetana "Gae" Aulenti (pronounced [ˈɡaːe auˈlɛnti]; 4 December 1927 – 31 October 2012) was an Italian architect and designer who was active in furniture design, graphic design, stage design, lighting design, exhibition and interior design.[1] She was known for her contributions to the design of important museums such as the Musée d'Orsay[2] in Paris (in collaboration with ACT Architecture),[3] the Contemporary Art Gallery at the Centre Pompidou in Paris,[4] the restoration of Palazzo Grassi in Venice,[5] and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (in collaboration with HOK Architects).[6] Aulenti was one of only a few women architects and designers who gained notoriety in their own right during the post-war period in Italy,[7] where Italian designers sought to make meaningful connections to production principles, and influenced culture far beyond Italy.[8] This avant-garde design movement blossomed into an entirely new type of architecture and design, one full of imaginary utopias leaving standardization to the past.
Aulenti's involvement in the Milan design scene of the 1950s and 1960s formed her into an architect respected for her analytical abilities to navigate metropolitan complexity no matter the medium. Her conceptual development can be followed in the design magazine Casabella, to which she contributed regularly.[8]
Her contemporaries were Cini Boeri, Vittorio Gregotti, Franca Helg, Giancarlo de Carlo, Aldo Rossi, and Lella Vignelli.
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