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 ".