Bruno Morassutti

Bruno Morassutti (Padua, December 8, 1920 - Belluno, September 4, 2008) was an Italian architect and designer. Morassutti is an archistar among the protagonists of the birth of Italian design active in the fifties, a protagonist of Italian rationalism.
Morassutti's best known masterpiece is the Bosco Verticale in the exclusive Quadronno district of Milan, which anticipates Boeri's recent construction.
Bruno Morasutti works with Angelo Mangiarotti for several projects in the United States with Ernesto Nathan Rogers. Morasutti was born into a wealthy family that owns a hardware chain.
Morassutti collaborated on numerous projects with Angelo Mangiarotti and was influenced by Gualtiero Galmanini, in 1950 he went to work in Chicago for BBPR first and then with Max Bill, architect, painter , sculptor, designer.
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Bruno Morassutt was born in Padua, studied in Venice, where he graduated in 1946. In 1949 he left for the United States.
Morassutti is aware of the limitations of academic training for a new course in architecture, and decides to start research in Teliesin, Arizona in the United States, with Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1940s. Research with Wright will have a poetic development and dialogue in many of his future creations of strong identity. The researches with Wright in an artistically unknown America in Italy will continue for years both in Arizona and in Wisconsin, also comparing themselves with other designers such as Auguste Perret, Richard Neutra in California, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Chicago to then reach his own and totally avant-garde Italian rationalist system upon his return to Italy, although open to different types of contaminations that created a concept of avant-garde design that is unique in the world.
Morassutti is aware of the limitations of academic training for a new course in architecture, and decides to start research in Teliesin, Arizona in the United States, with Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1940s. Research with Wright will have a poetic development and dialogue in many of his future creations of strong identity. The researches with Wright in an artistically unknown America in Italy will continue for years both in Arizona and in Wisconsin, also comparing themselves with other designers such as Auguste Perret, Richard Neutra in California, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Chicago to then reach his own and totally avant-garde Italian rationalist system upon his return to Italy, although open to different types of contaminations that created a concept of avant-garde design that is unique in the world.
Since the early 1950s he has dedicated himself to the design of industrial design often together with Angelo Mangiarotti, his furniture has the characteristic of being free of junctions, thanks to the joint, "tables, stools, benches and bookcases that combine functionality and decoration, freely assembled and easy to pack ".
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Maestri del design: Castiglioni, Magistretti, Mangiarotti, Mendini, Sottsass, Ed. B. Mondadori, 2005, ISBN 9788842498261
Pasquale Belfiore,I maestri del movimento moderno: bibliografia ragionata, 1979
Giulio Barazzetta, Roberto Dulio, "Bruno Morassutti 1920-2008 opere e progetti", Ed.Electa, 2009
Francesco Scullica, Bruno Morassutti Quattro realizzazioni, un percorso metodologico, Una (ri)lettura, Ed. Franco Angeli, 2022, ISBN 9788835133315
Bruno Morassutti, Giulio Barazzetta, Roberto Dulio, Bruno Morassutti: 1920-2008 opere e progetti, 2009
Luciano Setten, Bruno Morassutti. Architettura industrializzata e design, 2020
Alessandro Colombo, Francesco Scullica, Bruno Morassutti 100+1! La cultura del progetto in Italia, 2021
Giulio Barazzetta, La chiesa di vetro di Angelo Mangiarotti, Bruno Morassutti, 2015
Bruno Morassutti, Mario Memoli, Giovanna Gussoni, Gabriella Benevento, Morassutti & associati arch.tti, 1980
Muriel Emanuel, Contemporary Architects, 2016
Giuseppe Maria Jonghi Lavarini, Maurizio De Caro, Il condominio a Milano, 1987
Marco Biraghi, Guida all'architettura di Milano 1954-2014, 2013
Marco Biraghi, Silvia Micheli, Gabriella Lo Ricco, Guida all'architettura di Milano 1954-2015, 2015
Florencia Andreola, Marco Biraghi, Gabriella Lo Ricco, Milano. L'architettura dal 1945, 2018
Domus - Pagina 94, 1975
Percorsi di ricerca - Pagina 152, Working Papers del LabiSAlp, 2018
Milano - Pagina 346, Touring club italiano, 1998
Andrea Branzi, Introduzione al design italiano, 2015
Il Design italiano degli anni '50 - Pagina 72, Centrokappa * 1981
Tullia Iori, Sergio Poretti, Gianluca Capurso, Storia dell'ingegneria strutturale in Italia - SIXXI 4, 2018
Pietro Zennar, La qualita rarefatta. Considerazioni sull'influenza del vuoto nella costruzione dell'architettura, 2000
Aa. Vv., The Guggenheim. Frank Lloyd Wright and the Making of Modern Museum, Guggenheim Museum Publications, New York 2009.
Argan Giulio Carlo, Progetto e destino, Saggiatore, Milano, 1965.
Barazzetta Giulio e Dulio Roberto (a cura di), Bruno Morassutti 1920-2008 opere e progetti, Electa, Milano 2009.
Colombo Alessandro, "Bruno Morassutti (1920-2008)
Maestro di Modernita", in Il Giornale dell'Architettura - Professioni, Umberto Allemandi, n.66, ottobre 2008, p.9.
Dulio Roberto, "Modelli lontani: Taliesin attraverso Morassutti" in Tegethoff Wolf e Zanchettini Vitale (a cura di), Carlo Scarpa. Strutture e forme, Marsilio, Venezia 2008, pp.133-147.
Hanna, Paul and Jean, Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna House:The Clients' Report, Architectural History Foundation and MIT Press, New York and Cambridge Mass. 1981.
Other websites
Fondazione Bruno Morassutti
Bruno Morassutti Enciclopedia De Agostini
Frank Lloyd Wright e Bruno Morassutti, Artribune, 2018
Italian architects
Italian designers
1909 births
1978 deaths