Born in Milan in 1953, he graduated in architecture from the Milan Polytechnic in 1982, but before that date his training took place in the studios of Franco Albini and Gregotti. Apprenticeship with Gregotti lasts four years, during which he works at the University of Calabria contest (1972-1973) [1]. With the architect Pierluigi Nicolin [2] 1976-1981 he participated in the production of the Lotus International magazine, an episode that presents the importance of the printed word and the book-object of the architect's life and that translates into an "important collection [3] In the early eighties he moved to Paris, where he will have his two children, for the design of the Musée d'Orsay museum, won by Gae Aulenti.The experience of the place in the center of further consideration The wide range of the museum will continue with the competition, which was won in 1985, for the new rooms of the French school of the Cour Carré of the Louvre Museum, inaugurated in 1992, and with the recent Museo del Novecento in Milan (2002-2010). During the almost twenty years that he spent in France, different project scales are approached, from the urban design of exhibitions to exhibitions, events and cultural institutions [4] Still in France, he works for the theater in a historical moment in which they begin to establish the new names of Italian landscapes, including Margherita Palli. Rota during those years, working mainly with director Bernard Sobel. In 1988, for Hécube, he designs an environment in mirror space and repeats illuminated backlights of unreal Greek theater forums [5]. In the nineties, Italo Rota begins to evaluate a possible return to Italy. The year 1996 is the official return of the base goes from Paris to Milan, a city to which he was also Deputy Mayor for Urban Quality (1995-1996). The Milan Rota [6] and the studio are part of the architect's work, for the accumulation of found objects, books, collectibles cross, from Yuri Gagarin's helmet to the masks of black Africa that mix hierarchies in samples of materials, plans and mockups. Planning events and professional tasks take place inside and outside national borders. At the end of the 1990s and 2005, the Anzola and San Sisto mediateches were implemented. For fashion designer Roberto Cavalli, Italo Rota manufactures, as well as boutiques, [7] and clubs around the world, including a villa in the hills above Florence. [8] Landarchitecture projects, such as the urban development of the city center of Nantes (1992-1995) and the promenade in the Foro Italico in Palermo (2005), alternating with other recent projects such as the Boscolo Exedra Milan hotel [9], the Señor Hanuman Hindu temple [10], the Ciudades de Agua pavilion for Expo Zaragoza 2008, the preparation of the Triennale Design Museum in 2007, in addition to the aforementioned Museo del Novecento [11], which was inaugurated in December 2010.
