Arturo Dell'Acqua Bellavitis (born 1947) is the current director of the Milan Triennale Foundation and Exposition.
Arturo Dell'Acqua Bellavitis (born 1947) is the current director of the Milan Triennale Foundation and Exposition.
Apart from being the director of the Triennale, Bellavitis has his own architectural and design practice in Milan. [1] Among other customers, he has worked for Twinings, Nestlé, Renault and HGV.
Bellavitis has been a lecturer, and is now full professor of Industrial design, Interior design, Textile design and Fashion design at Polytechnic University of Milan in Milan, Italy. At the same university, he is also the director of the Polidesign project, chairman of the Fashion Design department, and since 1990 he has been the director of the master's degree in Design Management and Interior Design.
He has been visiting professor at many European and extra-European universities. He has lectured at the Royal Academy of Copenhagen (Denmark), at the Faculty of Architecture of Aarhus (Denmark), at De Montfort University (UK). He has conducted workshops at the Universities of Helsinki (Finland), Oslo (Norway), Orléans (France), Barcelona (Spain), Montreal (Canada), São Paulo (Brazil).
He has held Interior & Lighting seminars in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Barcelona.
He has taught Design Strategies and Technology and Prototypes workshops for the Design and Fashion Management courses at Bocconi Business School in Milan. [2]
He has also supervised the Italian international exchange students project (Erasmus Programme) for the Industrial and Interior Design departments at Politecnico di Milano.
Dell'Acqua Bellavitis has published many books and written various articles on international magazines such as Interni [3] and Bagno Design.
Among others, he has co-written with other famous Italian architects, such as Andrea Branzi, Pierfrancesco Cravel, Fabio Novembre. [4]
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If we can speak of an Italian art of enamel, it is thanks to De Poli, to the road he opened up and followed faithfully, to the example of his orthodox technique, to his sureness of touch, to the esteem and admiration he has won. And we should to be grateful to him for this also. Gio Ponti
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