Claudio Dini Biography
Having obtained his classical high school diploma, in 1957 he enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan. While still a student, he worked for a year at Studio BBPR and began his own design activity, also carrying out editorial and consultancy roles on issues of interior architecture and industrial design. In 1963 he began his teaching activity as assistant to Professor Ignazio Gardella at the University Institute of Architecture in Venice. There, having obtained his teaching qualification in 1971, he obtained the position of Architectural Composition II. The following year, he abandoned his teaching activity. In 1982, with his collaborators Gianfranco Mannini and Umberto Capelli, he founded “Studio Dini Architettura e Associati” which in 1988 changed to “Studio Dini-Capelli Architettura”. In 1987 he was appointed president of the Metropolitana Milanese, a position he held for five years and which saw him involved in the well-known events of 1992 on the illicit financing of political parties on the merits of which, as ascertained by the sentence of the Criminal Section VIII of the Court of Milan pronounced on 07.05 .1996, it will appear that "the accused has never withheld anything by way of personal enrichment... he has never personally participated in the management of the cash donations provided by the companies following the awarding of the contracts." In 2001, having returned permanently to Milan after a 5-year break, he resumed his activity as a designer, still active, dealing with hotel structures, building renovations in the Baltic countries, a delicate project of total reconstruction in the Milanese fashion district and conspicuous residential buildings as well as the competition for the central bank of Albania in Tirana.
