Carlo Mollino
Carlo Mollino (Turin, 6 May 1905 – Turin, 27 August 1973) was a Turin-born architect, designer, photographer and skier, author of the new Teatro Regio; son of the engineer Eugenio Mollino, designer of the Molinette hospital, he graduated in architecture from the Politecnico di Torino in 1931.[1]
Works
Among his earliest works was the headquarters of the Società Ippica Torinese (1937-1940), demolished in 1960.[1] In 1946-1947 he built the station of the Lago Nero chairlift, restored in 2006, and in 1952, with Aldo Morbelli, the Rai auditorium now named after Toscanini; he also designed the Le Roi ballroom (1959) and, together with Umberto Mastroianni, won the competition for the monument to the Partisan at the Monumental Cemetery.[2] The headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce on Via San Francesco da Paola, the result of a 1964 competition, is a volume suspended from a central pillar.[3] The new Teatro Regio, designed together with Marcello Zavelani Rossi, was inaugurated on 10 April 1973, a few months before his death.[4]
He also designed cars such as the Bisiluro (1955) and published «Il messaggio dalla camera oscura» (1949), on photography, and «Introduzione al discesismo» (1950), on skiing.[1][2] His professional archive is held at the Politecnico's Central Library of Architecture, which in 2023, fifty years after his death, dedicated an exhibition to him at the State Archive.[1][5]
Casa Mollino
At Via Napione 2, in a villa dating from 1888, between 1960 and 1968 Mollino redesigned an apartment as a “refuge of the spirit,” in which he never actually lived; today it is the Museo Casa Mollino, open to visitors by appointment in small groups.[6][7]
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- Treccani, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani —
- MuseoTorino
- MuseoTorino
- Artribune —
- Politecnico di Torino — 13 December 2023
- Domus — 5 July 2018
- Turismo Torino e Provincia