Pierluigi Spadolini

Pierluigi Spadolini (5 April 1922 – 8 June 2000) was an Italian architect and industrial designer.

Life and career

Born in Florence, he was the son of the painter Guido Spadolini and the older brother of the politician Giovanni, prime minister of Italy in the early 1980s.

Spadolini attended the local Faculty of Architecture while working in the studio of Raffaello Fagnoni. He graduated in 1952 and began his independent activity as an architect, creating numerous works in the fields of public and private construction. He initially served as a design consultant for industrial products such as radios, televisions, and household appliances for Magneti Marchi, LESA, and Autovox; for electromechanical medical devices for OTE Biomedica; for furniture for Arflex and Kartell; and for recreational boats at the Naval Shipyards of Pisa. He won the same award in 1987, for the project of the MPL ready-to-use housing unit, developed by EdilPro-Italstat.

In 1988, he founded the studio Spadolini & Associates with his son Guido Lorenzo. In 1989, he organized and participated in a series of lectures in Moscow for officials of the Ministry of Public Works of the Soviet Union, which culminated in the conference "Architecture and System". Ravenna Courthouse, Ravenna (1980) Foggia Courthouse, Foggia (1981) Assicurazioni Generali Corporate Headquarters, Mogliano Veneto (1981–1988) Greenway at the Naples Business District (1984) Reggio Emilia Courthouse, Reggio Emilia (1984–1992) Church of Santa Maria del Redentore in Tor Bella Monaca, Rome (1986) Church of San Carlo Borromeo, Naples (1990) Italy Pavilion at Expo 1992, Seville (1991–1992, with Gae Aulenti)

He also collaborated as an external consultant on the design of the Turin Courthouse, working with Ezio Ingaramo and Enzo Zacchiroli (1990–2000).