Lodovico Migliore, nicknamed Ico (born 1956), is an Italian architect, designer, professor and former professional ice hockey player. He is professor at the School of Design of the Polytechnic University of Milan and he is Chair Professor of the College of Design at Busan Dongseo University in South Korea. He served as chairman of Hockey Milano Rossoblu, an ice hockey team in Elite.A based out of Milan, Italy from 2010 to 2016. He also competed in the men's tournament at the 1984 Winter Olympics.
Biography
Ico Migliore started playing ice hockey in Turin, He first joined the Valpellice team, and then he played three seasons for those of Bolzano and Varese. In the meantime, he received his degree in architecture from Polytechnic University of Turin under the supervision of Professor Achille Castiglioni. He started working with Castiglioni at Polytechnic University of Milan where he moved in 1986, and played for Milan Saiman as the captain of the team until 1990.
In 1997 he co-founded, with Mara Servetto, Migliore + Servetto Architects, an architecture firm which creates, together with an international team of architects and designers, projects on various scales: from architecture to interior design; from urban design to temporary exhibitions; from museum to communication projects. These projects, diversified as they are, create innovative places that have a major impact on people. Architectures, interior and exhibition design projects characterized by an expressive use of light and new technologies.
He is professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan (School of Design). He is also Chair Professor of the College of Design at Busan Dongseo University in South Korea.
He has been awarded many international prizes, such as the XXI (2008), XXIII (2014), XXV (2018) ADI Compasso d’Oro (Ita), five Honorable Mentions ADI Compasso d’Oro (Ita), eleven Red Dot Design Award (Ger), two German Design Award (Ger), two FX Interior Design Award (UK), the Annual Exhibit Design Award (US), two International Design Award (US) and the ASAL Exhibition Design of the Year (Ita).
Ico Migliore has been a member of scientific committees and juries for national and international contests on interior and spatial design organised by universities and institutions. Among these, he was one of the nine jury members of BIE (Bureau International des Expositions) for the Official Participants Awards Milan Expo 2015. Lately, he has been selected as one of the members of the scientific committee for the 3rd Architecture Exhibition of Pisa (Biennale) “The Time of Water” (2019).
In 2010, his works were mentioned in the encyclopedia entry “Allestire oggi – Progetti paradigmatici” (Exhibiting Today – Paradigmatic Projects) written by Italo Lupi and Beppe Finessi for the Treccani Italian Encyclopaedia of the 21st Century in the section dedicated to spaces and arts.
His son Tommaso is an ice hockey player; his daughter Carola is a fencing player.
Publication activity
On the basis of his original research and professional activities, Ico Migliore has written articles and essays for many design and architecture journals, both in Italy and overseas, such as: Abitare, Domus, Interni, Wallpaper*, Frame, Axis, Bob and many others. His textual contributions on interior and spatial design, and exhibition design in particular, have appeared in several books. He is the author of several books about interior and spatial design, such as: “Time to Exhibit: Directing Spatial Design and New Narrative Pathways” (2019) edited by Franco Angeli; “Drawings by Ico Migliore. Sketches, Sceneries, Maps” (2019) edited by A&C Publishing; “Space Morphing Migliore + Servetto Temporary Architecture” (2007) edited by Five Continents.
Main works
Museums
ADI Design Museum Compasso d’Oro, Milan, in progress
Layout of the "History of Mankind" section, Milan Natural History Museum, Milan (2019) Logo and Corporate Identity, Miramare Historical Museum and Castle Park, Trieste (2019) MIC-International Museum of the Shoe “Pietro Bertolini”, Vigevano, 2016 Leonardiana . A New Museum", Vigevano, 2016 Logo and Corporate Identity, Museo Egizio, Turin, 2014/2015 “A building site as an event”, Museo Egizio, Turin, 2012/2015 Pesaro City Art Museum, Palazzo Mosca, Pesaro, 2013 Intesa Sanpaolo Bank Savings Museum, Turin, 2012 Chopin Muzeum, Warsaw, 2010