Paolo Piva

Paolo Piva (13 March 1950 in Adria − 6 July 2017 in Vienna[1]) was an Austrian-Italian Architect and Designer.

Paolo Piva was born in 1950 in the Veneto region of Northern Italy. He studied architecture under Prof. Carlo Scarpa in Venice. He worked as architect and created designs for renowned furniture companies, like Poliform/Varenna, De Sede, B&B Italia and Wittmann Austria. Since 1988 Piva was Professor for Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He worked and lived in Venice and Vienna and Biella (Piedmont).[1][2]

Publications
  • "I secoli di Polirone. Committenza e produzione artistica di un monastero benedettino", Senza editore 1981 (it)
  • "Paolo Piva. Design und Architektur", Residenz 1997, ISBN 978-3701707003 (en)
  • "Architektur & Design", Residenz 1999, ISBN 978-3701711376 (en)
  • "ID 1 - Industrial Design", Jung und Jung 2011, ISBN 978-3902497956 (de)
  • "Houses & Homes", Jung und Jung 2013, ISBN 978-3990270370 (en)

References
  1. Wojciech Czaja: „Architekt und Designer Paolo Piva verstorben“, Der Standard, 7 July 2017 (german)
  2. „Scompare Paolo Piva. Il ricordo di Giorgio Busnelli“, La Repubblica, 7. July 2017 (italian)
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.