Carlo Mollino Biography
Carlo Mollino (Turin, 6 May 1905 – Turin, 27 August 1973) was an Italian architect, designer, photographer and aviator. Born in Turin, the only son of the engineer Eugenio Mollino, he completed his studies, from primary school to high school, at the San Giuseppe College. In 1925 he enrolled in the Faculty of Engineering and, after a year, he moved to the Royal School of Architecture of the Albertina Academy of Turin, which later became the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic of Turin, where he graduated in July 1931. Mollino was In addition to being an architect and designer, he was also an airplane and racing car pilot, writer and photographer. An excellent skier, as well as director of Coscuma (commission of ski schools and instructors), in 1951 he wrote the treatise Introduction to downhill skiing from whose pages his restless, imaginative and bizarre personality fully emerges. After having published the volumes Architecture, art and technique in 1948, in 1953 he won the competition for full professor and obtained the chair of Architectural Composition, which he held until his death. In 1957 he participated in the organizational committee of the XI Triennale of Milan. Mollino died suddenly in 1973, when he was still active, in his studio.
