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Carlo Mollino
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was born in Turin on 6th May 1905. Mollino studied at the San Giuseppe Boarding-House of Turin and enlisted in engineering at the Politecnico. One year later Mollino moved to the Royal Superior School of Architecture, next faculty of Architecture of the Politecnico. He graduated in July 1931. He ended his professional training with his father, the engineer Enrico Mollino, to whom several important works in Turin, among which the Hospital of Molinette are due.
Mollino worked at the father bureau and in the meanwhile he made several competitions and he win all of them. In autumn 1949 he entered as an annually appointed professor at the course in Decoration of the faculty of Architecture of the Politecnico di Torino. In 1953 Mollino got the chair of Architectonic Composition, he kept up to his death.
The San Luca Academy recognised in 1970 the exceptional value of Mollino's work as a designer (dal 1928 al 1973) and man of studies.
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He died in his father's bureau, inherited by him, on 27th August 1973. |
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His professional archive is preserved at the Carlo Mollino Fund. His major work of the 30s is the head office of the Horse Society in Turin (1935-1939), demolished in 1960 due to ununderstandable bureaucratic and patrimonial reasons.
As far as his architectonic production is concerned, we can remember: the station for sludgeway with hotel at Lago Nero in Aosta Valley (1948), made in iron, wood and reinforced concrete, the RAI auditorium in Turin, made in co-operation with the architect Morbelli, the monument to the Dead for Liberty in the burial place of Turin (with the sculpturer Mastroianni), the project for the Chamber of Commerce (1964) and the Royal Theatre, in addition to several civil buildings.
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