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)
gollark: Dunbar's number is 150 or so - humans can have meaningful social relationships with 150 or so people, apparently. Many systems require larger-scale coordination than this.
gollark: ... so we can have technology?
gollark: Communal thinking works for small close-knit communities. But that obviously does not scale.
gollark: And as an individual... you need to randomly give companies stuff and hope they'll send you back food?
gollark: The gifts thing sounds bad - just to be able to interact with an industry, you need to give companies free stuff and just hope they'll randomly give you stuff if you ask for it?

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)
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