page_title: Eugenio Gentili Tedeschi
section_title: Early years
hierarchical_section_title: Eugenio Gentili Tedeschi / Early years
caption_attribution_description: English: Sketch by Eugenio Gentili Tedeschi showing Tedeschi, trailing behind his friend Primo Levi, as they set out on a mountain climbing holiday.
context_page_description: Eugenio Gentili Tedeschi was an Italian architect, designer, teacher and writer active in Italian building and product design from the 1940s until his death in 2005. Through his popular lectures while professor of design at Milan Politecnico and through his numerous books, he influenced many of the designers and architects working in Italy and abroad today. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation have recognized Gentili for his actions in the Italian Resistance in the Val d'Aosta during World War 2. His architectural legacy in the form of buildings can be seen in Milan and elsewhere in Italy today.
context_section_description: Eugenio Gentili Tedeschi was born to Jewish parents in Turin in 1916 where he had his early schooling. In 1935 he began university studies in architecture at Politecnico di Torino in its architecture division, completing his undergraduate studies in 1939 and his graduate work 1940. Concurrently, Gentili was also a student of the painter Felice Casorati until 1941. As a student in the late 1930s he formed a close, lasting friendship with the chemist and writer, Primo Levi, who knew him as "Euge" and with whom he shared a love of mountain climbing.
caption: Tedeschi's sketch of Primo Levi leading the way on a hike in the Alps.
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