Born in Milan in 1921, he earned his degree in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Milan in 1948. After collaborating on the design of the 8th Milan Triennale, he had a formative experience in the United States, where he came into contact with leading figures in modern architecture such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Konrad Wachsmann. This decisive period solidified his interest in construction systems, prefabrication, and the relationship between industry and design.

Over the course of a career spanning more than sixty years, he worked as an architect, designer, urban planner, and professor, creating buildings, infrastructure, design objects, and sculptures. At the same time, he was deeply involved in academic work in Italy and abroad, contributing to the spread of a design culture grounded in an understanding of materials and production processes.

His research is distinguished by an almost scientific approach to materials. Marble, glass, wood, and metal are studied first for their structural properties rather than their aesthetic ones: it is the material itself that suggests the form. Every project arises from constructive logic, interlocking elements, the balance of forces, and modularity, transforming technique into an expressive language that represents one of his greatest contributions to the history of international design.

Among the most significant collaborations of his career is that with Vistosi, for whom he designed Giogali in 1967, destined to become one of the company's and Italian design's most iconic collections. The idea stems from a single modular element in hand-crafted crystal: a hook that, when repeated and connected to other identical elements, generates potentially infinite configurations. More than a chandelier, Giogali is an architectural system of light, capable of adapting to different contexts and scales while maintaining the strength of its design concept. Even today, it remains one of Vistosi's iconic collections and one of the longest-running in the catalog, having evolved over time, including the Minigiogali version, confirming the timelessness and extraordinary versatility of the original design.