**Gualtieri Galmanini** (1909 – 1978) was an Italian architect, industrial designer and furniture designer. Galmanini is a protagonist of Italian rationalism.
Galmanini is considered one of the most important designers of the twentieth century and a protagonist of rationalism, sophisticated, original and innovative Italian exponent, his works are characterized by geometric rigor and the alternation between solidity and transparency, in structures in which glass, concrete and metal they combine to create spaces, volumes and plays of light and shadow.

Biography
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Gualtiero Galmanini studied in Milan graduating from Regio Istituto Tecnico Superiore (the future  Politecnico), and at the same time starting his professional activity and career academic.
During the  Great War Galmanini served as an officer in the  Engineers, receiving awards. After the war he resumed his professional activity, continuing to design, documenting the destruction that had struck Italy during the war years, also participating in the "National Congress for Reconstruction". He restarted his career in the studio of Gio Ponti in Milan, then opened his own studio in Corso Matteotti in Milan collaborating and designing with Piero Portaluppi in Milan.

In 1947 Galmanini became a Archistar and was awarded the highest Italian award for design, the Gold Medal for Italian Architecture by the Milan Triennale with the BIE - Bureau international des Expositions.

* Galmanini design (1958)Galmanini design (1958)
* Stairs by di Galmanini. details (1955)Stairs by di Galmanini. details (1955)
* Scale di Galmanini. stairs project 1955 Centro del Mobile, Lissone, ItaliaScale di Galmanini. stairs project 1955 Centro del Mobile, Lissone, Italia
* Galmanini, renovation of Fuel station project (ex), Mantova, Italia (1958)Galmanini, renovation of Fuel station project (ex), Mantova, Italia (1958)

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Galmanini's most important buildings and works were made with innovative mosaic tiles. The Milanese design was created by Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Ignazio Gardella or Gio Ponti, reflecting on the theme of composite leathers in  floccato which present various shades Galmanini, from 1953, began a first experiment with external coatings based on "vitreous ceramic" materials, studying the cold chromatic details in day and night reflections with a mixture of mosaic fragments of two by two milliteters .

In the innovative 1958 refueling station in Mantua, Galmanini's conceptual style creates spaces characterized by an alternation of glass pads and transparent bricks, which interact perfectly under the unifying element formed by a thin roof. The building is designed in the name of transparency and lightness, with a flat roof supported by columns in exposed steel profiles. The facade has large slides, the glass in all its forms is enhanced by Galmanini, and the exposed bricks, the structures are brick cut with bricks, reinforced concrete and steel, the ceilings are made with a sloping platform with concrete cladding and metal frames.

The restructuring of Banco Ambrosiano was one of the last works, if not the last, of Piero Portaluppi, following which he will collaborate extensively on the projects of Gualtiero Galmanini, his companion and younger friend.

Designs and projects
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 The staircase of the Triennale Museum of Design in Milan, designed by Galmanini in 1947
* 1927: Teatro dell'Arte of Triennale di Milano, with Giovanni Muzio.
* 1939 - 1941: Housing, library and canteen for a cotton factory, with Bruno Sirtori, Sondrio
* 1946: restoration of Pinacoteca di Brera Museum with Piero Portaluppi
* 1947: Staircase of Triennale of Milan Museum with Luigi Pollastri
* 1950: The *Galmanino*, clothes hangers
* 1950: Study for the restoration The Vescogna (Fondo Ambiente Italiano), Vescogna, Calco
* 1950: Study for the restoration Villa Calchi (Fondo Ambiente Italiano)
* 1950 - 1956: *Palazzo dell’Arengario* building, with Piero Portaluppi, located at Piazza Duomo, Milan
* 1953 - 1956: *Palazzo Galmanini Portaluppi* building, located at Viale Beatrice d'Este, n. 23, Milan
* 1955 - 1956: *Palazzo Deutsche Bank* building, located at Corso Emanuele Filiberto, n. 110, Lecco
* 1953 - 1956: *Villa Plinii* luxury Cliff-Villa, located at Lake Como
* 1958: the former gas station at Piazzale Antonio Gramsci 17 - Mantua, Italy
* 1960 - 1966: Enlargement of the Ambrosian Bank office in Milan, Piazza Paolo Ferrari 10 with Piero Portaluppi 1960-1966

Bibliography
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* Roberto Dulio, *Ville in Italia dal 1945*, Electa architettura, 2008, ISSN 2036-9298, presso Biblioteca Pubblica di New York
* Marco Introini, Luigi Spinelli, *Architecture in Mantua from the Palazzo Ducale to the Burgo Paper Mill*, Silvana Editoriale, 2018

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