Gae Aulenti
Gae Aulenti, pseudonym of Gaetana Aulenti (Palazzolo dello Stella, December 4, 1927; Milan, November 1, 2012), was an Italian architect and designer.
Born in the province of Udine, to a father originally from Puglia, she graduated in Architecture from the Milan Polytechnic in 1953, where she obtained a license to work. Gae Aulenti was trained as an architect in the city of Milan in the fifties, where Italian architecture is committed to the historical-cultural search for the recovery of the architectural values of the past and the existing built environment. These architectural expressions of the fifties came before the development of neorealism and later finally materialized, in fact, in the new Neoliberty current. Architect Aulenti forms part of this discourse, which emerges as a reaction to rationalism.
From 1955 to 1965 he was part of the editorial team of Casabella-Continuità under the direction of Ernesto Nathan Rogers.
At the University, he was first assistant to Giuseppe Samonà (from 1960 to 1962) in the Department of Architectural Composition at the University Institute of Architecture in Venice, and shortly after (1964 to 1969) to Ernesto Nathan Rogers in the Department of Architectural Projects at the Polytechnic University of Milan.
She says of herself that she sees her architecture in close relationship and in interconnection with the existing urban environment, which is becoming almost its generational form, seeking, with this, to transfer in her architectural space the variety and intensity of the elements that define the urban universe.
From 1974 to 1979 he is a member of the Steering Committee of the "Lotus International" magazine, then he does more artistic work and from 1976 to 1978 he collaborates with Luca Ronconi in Prato at the Theater Projects Laboratory.
In 1984 she was appointed correspondent of the National Academy of San Luca in Rome, while from 1995 to 1996 she was president of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts.
