Mario Asnago Biography
Mario Asnago (Barlassina, 25 March 1896 – Monza, 28 January 1981) was an Italian architect. A rationalist, he designed the condominiums in via Euripide (1937) and the offices in via Alberico Albricci (1944) in Milan. He worked in collaboration with the architect Claudio Vender. Numerous participations in the exhibitions of the Milan Triennale, starting from 1930; at the V Triennale, in 1933, they exhibited various works in the different sections: the elementary schools of Cesano Maderno, 1930, and the houses of via Mac Mahon 32, 1931 ("Works recently built by Italian architects"); the City of Como shop, 1932 ("Interior architecture"); the furnishings of a living room, 1933 ("Exhibition of modern environments"). In the same V Triennale, Claudio Vender took care of the layout of the collective room ("Pavilion of art schools"). At the VI Triennale (1936) they exhibited the projects for the Canturina Villa Marelli (1929, 1933) and the Viganò Optical Institute shop in Piazza Cordusio, Milan (1933) in the gallery of Italian architecture; the exhibition "Current architecture and Italian tradition", in the Pagano pavilion set up in Sempione park, includes the furniture designed for the atrium by the two architects. The last participation in the Triennale was in 1947 (VIII Triennale), with the farmhouses Tenuta Castello di Torrevecchia Pia, in the province of Pavia, whose project (1937) is exhibited in the "International photographic architecture exhibition" section.
