Studio Piero Castiglioni
Award winning light&architecture design studio.
The lighting design should integrate with an environmental culture,
interpret history, architecture, philosophy
which imply the spaces in which it operates and makes people live.
Piero Castiglioni
He was born in Lierna (CO) in 1944. He took a degree in architecture in 1970 at Politecnico di Milano.
In 1972 he worked together with Ugo La Pietra for the exhibition “Italy: the new domestic landascape” at the MoMA in New York.
Since the Seventies he has started focusing on lighting projects both of big and small scale. In 1986 he lighted the Musée d’Orsay in Paris: a timeless and memorable project. During those years he also began his long-lasting activity as a lighting designer. Nowadays he is one of the most important names of the Italian design internationally well known.
He has collaborated with different and recognized architects, among whom ten winners of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
He has been teacher of the Master in “Lighting Design” in Italian and foreign universities and he has participated as speaker in lectures all over the world.
During his career he has been awarded many prizes. In 2020 he was appointed Grande Ufficiale dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, while in 2021 he received a special award for the 50th Anniversary of his career by the Association AIDI.
"Before being an architect, I am an electrician."
— PIERO CASTIGLIONI
The Studio
Since the beginning of the Seventies the Studio has been the office of the collaboration between Piero Castiglioni and his father Livio. Many lamps have been planned in this place while the “Scintilla” system has been literally assembled there. In the Eighties it became a space for the design and for the training of young lighting designers, thanks to the partnership with Chiara Baldacci.
Nowadays the Studio keeps on the research in lighting projects with a systemic and consolidated approach by developing tailored made lighting solutions for museums, exhibitions, theatres, concert halls, urban spaces, shops, places of worship, yachts and private houses.
Professionals with heterogeneous skills, working in partnership to lighting projects needs a deep capability of observation of both architectural structures and people who come in contact with these spaces. This is an additional value to technologies, rules and architectural regulations. Light is tought as a service so its aim is to show what is visible without changing the perception of spaces.