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De Pas, D'Urbino, Lomazzi

The De Pas, D'Urbino, Lomazzi studio was founded in 1966. The architect De Pas died in 1991. In the 1960s and 1970s, the studio focused in particular on the creation of temporary furniture and architecture, using signs, materials and advanced industrial technologies, for example pneumatic structures for the Milan Triennale, and participated, with works and installations, in numerous exhibitions in this field. From the 1970s and 1980s onwards, the studio designed industrial and residential buildings, obtaining numerous awards and recognitions.

Works by all three architects are included in the design collections of several museums, including: MoMA and the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin and Zurich, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museo delle Disseny dell'Triennale in Milan. Design work is accompanied by theoretical and cultural work: teaching at the Polytechnic University of Milan from 1999 to 2008, and at the IUAV University in Venice since 2005.

The studio's archives, declared of special historical interest by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, were donated in 2010 to the Milan City Council's Centro di Alti Studi sulle Arti Visive. Il gioco e la regola was the title of the monographic exhibition that the Milan Triennale dedicated to the studio in 2012.