Biographie de Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani
Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani (b. 1951 in Rome) studied architecture at the Sapienza University and the University of Stuttgart, where he completed his doctorate in 1977. He served as scientific advisor to the International Building Exhibition Berlin (IBA) from 1980 to 1984, and was the editor-in-chief of the magazine Domus from 1990 to 1996. He was the director of the German Architecture Museum (DAM) in Frankfurt am Main from 1990 to 1995 and taught at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University, among others.
He was professor of the History of Urban Design at the ETH Zurich from 1994 to 2017, serving also as the dean of the Department of Architecture and director of the Institute of History and Theory of Architecture (gta). He has authored a remarkable body of scholarly publications and runs architecture practices in Milan and Zurich.