Roberto Mango ( May 14 1920 – February 21st 2003 ) was a architect And designer Italian , professor of Industrial Design at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Naples Federico II since 1958.
He graduated in 1946 with a thesis for a nautical club on Lake Fusaro at the Faculty of Architecture of Naples. From 1949 to 1950 he was at Princeton University with a research fellowship. Read the full biography
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Roberto Mango ( May 14 1920 – February 21st 2003 ) was a architect And designer Italian , professor of Industrial Design at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Naples Federico II since 1958.
He graduated in 1946 with a thesis for a nautical club on Lake Fusaro at the Faculty of Architecture of Naples. From 1949 to 1950 he was at Princeton University with a research fellowship. Here he began his collaboration with Romaldo Giurgola. From 1951 to 1952 he was a correspondent for the architecture and design magazine Domus . From 1951 to 1953 he was co-director of the magazine Interiors in New York.
He attended the Fuller Research Foundation and the Raymond Loewy Corporation also in NY. He took part in the "Lamp Design Competition" of MOMA in 1950 with a poetic and innovative project.
He was the founder of the Neapolitan school of design, contributing, through projects, studies and research, to renew the language of industrial design culture. From 1954 to 1964 he was the Italian correspondent of the American magazine Industrial Design .
In 1967 he received the Compasso d'Oro for design research.