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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]].

In 1947 Galmanini became a [[Archistar]] and was awarded the highest Italian award for design, the [[Gold Medal for Italian Architecture]] by the [[Milan Triennale]] with the BIE - [[Bureau international des Expositions]].

== Style ==
Galmanini's most important buildings and works were made with innovative mosaic tiles. The Milanese design was created by [[Luigi Caccia Dominioni]], [[Ignazio Gardella]] or [[Gio Ponti]], reflecting on the theme of composite leathers in [[Floccatura | floccato]] which present various shades Galmanini, from [[1953]], began a first experiment with external coatings based on "vitreous ceramic" materials, studying the cold chromatic details in day and night reflections with a mixture of mosaic fragments of two by two milliteters .

In the innovative 1958 refueling station in Mantua, Galmanini's conceptual style creates spaces characterized by an alternation 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==
[[File:Triennale di milano scalone centrale.jpeg|thumb| The staircase of the Triennale Museum of Design in Milan, designed by Galmanini in [[1947]]'']]
* [[1927]] Teatro dell'Arte of [[Triennale di Milano]],<ref>[http://www.edida-awards.com/ceremony/edida-2018], Elle Deco. International Design Award.  The EDIDA Awards gathers the editors-in-chief of ELLE Decoration editions</ref> with [[Giovanni Muzio]].
* [[1939]] - [[1941]] Housing, library and canteen for a cotton factory, with Bruno Sirtori, Sondrio<ref>[http://milano.repubblica.it/cronaca/2010/07/22/foto/l_architettura_al_centro_delle_alpi-5753619/8/?refresh_ce]  L'Architettura al Centro delle Alpi, Repubblica, 4 febbraio 2016</ref>
* [[1947]] Staircase  of [[Triennale of Milan]] Museum<ref>[http://old.triennale.org/en/archive-foto/exposure/21952-08trn?filter_catphoto=21999&cat=21998&filter_type=image]{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, 1947.VIII Triennale di Milano International exhibition of modern decorative and industrial arts and modern architecture [Housing], Triennale di Milano</ref> with [[Luigi Pollastri]]<ref>[http://ilgiornaledellarchitettura.com/web/2016/02/04/triennial-story-viii-edition-1947/]{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, The Journal of Architecture, Triennial story: VIII edition, 1947, February 4, 2016</ref>
* [[1950]] The ''Galmanino'', clothes hangers
* [[1950]] Study for the restoration The Vescogna (Fondo Ambiente Italiano), [[Vescogna]], [[Calco]]
* [[1950]] Study for the restoration Villa Calchi (Fondo Ambiente Italiano)
* [[1953]] - [[1956]] ''Palazzo d'Este'' building, located at Viale Beatrice d'Este, n. 23, [[Milan]]
* [[1953]] - [[1956]] ''Villa Plinii'' luxury Cliff-Villa, located at Lake Como
* [[1958]] the former [[gas station]] at Piazzale Antonio Gramsci 17 - [[Mantua]], Italy<ref>[http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/architetture900/schede/p3010-00160/]  "Stazione Rifornimento Carburanti (ex)", Archivio Lombardia Beni Culturali</ref>
* [[1960]] - [[1966]] Enlargement of the Ambrosian Bank office in Milan, Piazza Paolo Ferrari 10 with  [[Piero Portaluppi]] 1960-1966<ref>[http://www.portaluppi.org/opere/ampliamento-della-sede-del- Banco-ambrosiano/], Piero Portaluppi Foundation with the contribution of Mediobanca</ref>

==References==
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== Bibliography ==
* Roberto Dulio, ''Ville in Italia dal 1945'', Electa architettura, 2008, ISSN 2036-9298, presso Biblioteca Pubblica di New York
* 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]]