Leonardo Mosso

Year of birth, place
1926, Turin, Italy
Year of death, place
2020, Turin, Italy
Role at the ZKM
in the collection
Biography
Leonardo Mosso studied architecture at the Politecnico di Torino. 1951–1955 worked in the architecture office of his father Nicola Mosso. 1955–1958 worked in the studio of Alvar Aalto in Helsinki. Since 1963 collaboration with Laura Castagno. 1961–1986 professor at the Politecnico di Torino. 1970 founder, with Laura Castagno, of the Centro Studi di Cibernetica Ambientale e Architettura Programmata and the Centro Studi Aaltiani di Torino, later Istituto Alvar Aalto. He lives in Pino Torinese, IT.
Lit.: L. M., “Architettura programmata e linguaggio,” in: Massimo Foti and Mario Zaffagnini (eds.), »La sfida elettronica, realtà e prospettive dell’uso del computer in architettura«, Bologna, 1969, pp. 130–137. L. M., “Programmazione strutturale e città-territorio programmata,” in: Wilfried Skreiner (ed.), »Architektur und Freiheit. Italien, Jugoslawien, Österreich. Dreiländerbiennale Trigon ’69«, Graz, 1969, pp. 13–30. Umbro Apollonio and Carlo Belloli, »Leonardo Mosso, programmierte architektur«, Milan, 1969.

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