Italo Rota, the Italian architect and designer, died on Saturday at the age of 70. Born in 1953 in Milan, Rota graduated from the city’s Politecnico University in 1982 and began his career in the studios of architects Franco Albini, Vittorio Gregotti, and Pierluigi Nicolin, all based in greater Milan, before decamping to Paris in 1986. There, in collaboration with fellow Italian expatriate architect Gae Aulenti, he led the renovation of the Museum of Modern Art at the Centre Pompidou (1986); the conversion of the Gare d'Orsay, a former railway station and hotel, into the Musée d'Orsay (1986), a museum for French art largely dating from 1848 to 1914; and lighting for the Notre-Dame Cathedral (1991-2000).
Italo Rota and Gae Aulenti led the conversion of Paris's Gare D'Orsay into a leading art museum. Photo by R Boed, Wikimedia Commons
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