Giotto Stoppino (1926-2011) & Vittorio Gregotti (1927-2020) & Lodovico Meneghetti (n. 1926) Biography
Giotto Stoppino (1926 - 1911), Lodovico Meneghetti (1926 - 2020) and Vittorio Gregotti (1927 - 2020), Italian architects and urban planners, founded the Studio Architetti Associati in 1953 in Novara. The Studio, active for 15 years, was very prolific, as demonstrated by the archive donated to the Municipality of Milan, which contains over 250 urban planning, architecture and industrial design projects, for a total of almost 4000 drawings. In recent years, Stoppino, Meneghetti and Gregotti have been involved in various fields such as architecture, design, urban planning and exhibitions. They designed, for example, workers' houses in Cameri (Novara) and created the Cavour armchair for SIM, characterized by a curved wooden structure, which is still present in the Frau catalogue. They also created the 537 table lamp for Arteluce, which is now part of the permanent collection at MoMA in New York. An important contribution to understanding the studio's approach in the field of interior architecture was the installation for the "Spatial transformation of the service area" at the "La casa inhabitata" exhibition in 1965, where Stoppino, Meneghetti and Gregotti proposed innovative solutions, which they subsequently also applied in their real projects. In 1968, Stoppino opened his own architecture studio and collaborated with international design brands such as Acerbis, ArteLuce, Bernini and Calligaris.