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In 1936 he moved to Milan to study Architecture and in 1942 he graduated from the Milan Polytechnic with   Gio Ponti .

Since 1944 he has collaborated with numerous articles in the magazine Domus and undertook his multifaceted professional activity aimed above all at the creation of domestic and theatrical environments.

From the beginning of the 1950s he began to establish himself as an architect, working in his home-studio in Milan in Viale Bianca Maria.

He created some of the most fascinating houses of the second half of the 20th century for an international and prestigious clientele of cultured collectors and great entrepreneurs including Thyssen, Onassis, Agnelli, Moratti, Versace, Rothschild and Hearst. Read the full biography

In 1936 he moved to Milan to study Architecture and in 1942 he graduated from the Milan Polytechnic with   Gio Ponti .

Since 1944 he has collaborated with numerous articles in the magazine Domus and undertook his multifaceted professional activity aimed above all at the creation of domestic and theatrical environments.

From the beginning of the 1950s he began to establish himself as an architect, working in his home-studio in Milan in Viale Bianca Maria.

He created some of the most fascinating houses of the second half of the 20th century for an international and prestigious clientele of cultured collectors and great entrepreneurs including Thyssen, Onassis, Agnelli, Moratti, Versace, Rothschild and Hearst. From the end of the 1950s he began his activity as a set designer for theater and cinema with Franco Zeffirelli, Peter Hall, Giancarlo Menotti, Raymond Rouleau.

In 1993 Mongiardino published, published by Rizzoli, “Camera Architecture”, a series of story-lessons in which he reveals some of the canons of his interior architecture, without ever forgetting to mention his irreplaceable craftsmen, precious collaborators who know how to transform reality the magic of a project, linked to him by "that elective affinity which is reached after years of collaboration in a continuous exercise of affectionate understanding".

After the fire of the Teatro la Fenice in Venice in 1996, Gae Aulenti entrusted him with the project for the reconstruction of the interior of the theatre, a project that was never completed.

He died in Milan on 16 January 1998.