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Il Teatro degli Arcimboldi

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Il Teatro degli Arcimboldi

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Il Teatro degli Arcimboldi

The Teatro degli Arcimboldi consists of the foyer with a large roof window and balconies overlooking it; the fan-shaped room with of two stalls and two galleries; the technologically advanced 33 meter high stage tower which allows to guarantee the maximum functionality of the stage spaces.

Both in the composition of the room and in the articulation of the collateral spaces, the structure is characterized by a linear structure and a composition made of simple geometric elements, outlining an essential but compact design.

Gregotti Associati International
Gregotti Associati International
Vittorio Gregotti was born in Novara in 1927 and he graduated in architecture at the University Politecnico di Milano in 1952. From 1953 to 1968 he carried out his activities in collaboration with Ludovico Meneghetti and Giotto Stoppino. In 1974 he has founded the practice Gregotti Associati, which he is president. He was a professor of Architectural Composition at the Institute of Architecture University in Venice, he taught at the Faculty of Architecture of Milan and Palermo, and was visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Lausanne, Harvard, Philadelphia, Princeton, Cambridge (UK) and M.I.T. Cambridge (Massachusetts.). He has participated in several international exhibitions and has been responsible for the introductory section of the XIII Triennale (Milan 1964), for which she won the International Award. From 1974 to 1976 he was director of visual arts and architecture of the Venice Biennale. He is Academic St. Luke from 1976 and the Brera Academy from 1995. He was awarded an honorary degree from the Technical University in Prague in 1996 and the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic of Bucharest in 1999. Since 1997 he is a member of the BDA (Bund der deutschen Architekten) and since 1999 he is an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. From 1953 to 1955 he was editor of Casabella, from 1955 to 1963 editor of Casabella-Continuity; from 1963 to 1965 Director of Edilizia Moderna and responsible for the architecture section of the magazine Il Verri; from 1979 to 1998 he was Director of Rassegna and from 1982 to 1996 again Director of Casabella. From 1992 to 1997 he collaborated with the BBC since 1997 and works with the main Italian newspapers La Repubblica and Il Corriere della Sera.
Il Teatro degli Arcimboldi

Il Teatro degli Arcimboldi

The Arcimboldi Theater was inaugurated in 2002, and for three years it hosted the performances of the Teatro alla Scala, or in the period when the Scala was closed for restoration.

Project Specs

  • Location: Milan
  • Completed: 2001
  • Photographer: D. Domenicali
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Il Teatro degli Arcimboldi

Designed by

Gregotti Associati International Architects

Live Project

The Arcimboldi Theatre is located in the heart of the Bicocca district of Milan.

The complex structure, which looks like a building disconnected from the regular urban layout, is currently the second largest in Europe and the largest in Italy.

Inside there are the offices, the dressing rooms, a double rehearsal room for the orchestra and for the dance, and several refreshment points. The ticket office is located on the north side of the square, in the low building with the arcade, which also houses a restaurant. The Teatro degli Arcimboldi is an ultramodern space where construction, acoustic and visual elements cross and was the first in Italy to be equipped with an individual multilingual booklet-display system that reports the original language of the single work and the translations in Italian, English and French.