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|nationality          = Italian
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|death_date           = 1978 
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|occupation           = [[architect]], industrial designer
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'''Gualtieri Galmanini''' (1909 – 1978) was an Italian [[architect]], industrial designer and furniture designer. Galmanini is a protagonist of Italian rationalism.

[[File:Gualtiero_Galmanini,_eliocopia_del_Palazzo_del_Mobile_di_Lissone,_MAC_Museo_d'Arte_Contemporanea_di_Lissone.png|thumb|Galmanini, Museo d'arte contemporanea di Lissone, 1955]]

== Biography ==
Gualtiero Galmanini studied in [[Milan]] graduating from [[Regio Istituto Tecnico Superiore]] (the future [[Politecnico di Milano | Politecnico]]), and at the same time starting his professional activity and [[career]] academic.
During the [[World War II | Great War]] Galmanini served as an officer in the [[Military Engineers | Engineers]], receiving awards.<ref>[http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/architetture900/schede/p3010-00160/] "Stazione Rifornimento Carburanti (ex)", Archivio Lombardia Beni Culturali</ref>. After the war he resumed his professional activity, continuing to design, documenting the destruction that had struck Italy during the war years, also participating in the "National Congress for Reconstruction". He restarted his [[career]] in the studio of [[Gio Ponti]] in [[Milan]], then opened his own studio in Corso Matteotti in Milan collaborating and designing with [[Piero Portaluppi]] in [[Milan]].

(contracted; show full) of glass pads and transparent bricks, which interact perfectly under the unifying element formed by a thin roof. The building is designed in the name of transparency and lightness, with a flat roof supported by columns in exposed steel profiles. The facade has large slides, the glass in all its forms is enhanced by Galmanini, and the exposed bricks, the structures are brick cut with bricks, reinforced concrete and steel, the ceilings are made with a sloping platform with concrete cladding and metal frames
.<ref>[http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/architetture900/schede/p3010-00160/]  "Stazione Rifornimento Carburanti (ex) [station d'alimentation en carburant]", Archivio Lombardia Beni Culturali</ref>.

The restructuring of Banco Ambrosiano was one of the last works, if not the last, of Piero Portaluppi, following which he will collaborate extensively on the projects of Gualtiero Galmanini, his companion and younger friend.

==Designs and projects==
* [[Piero Portaluppi]]

==Designs and projects==
(contracted; show full)* Marco Introini, Luigi Spinelli, ''Architecture in Mantua from the Palazzo Ducale to the Burgo Paper Mill'', Silvana Editoriale, 2018

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[[Category:Italian architects]]
[[Category:1909 births]]
[[Category:1978 deaths]]