Tomás Maldonado
- Year of birth, place
- 1922, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Biography
- Tomás Maldonado studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón and the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano, Buenos Aires (1936–1942). 1944 co-founder of Asociación Arte Concreto-Invención and 1945 of Arte Madí. 1951 co-founder of the review »Nueva Visión«. 1954–1967 taught at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm (HfG). 1964–1966 rector of the HfG. 1964 created with Gui Bonsiepe a system of codes for the design program of the Italian firm Olivetti. 1967–1970 guest professor at the School of Architecture, Princeton University. 1976–1984 professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, University of Bologna. 1976–1991 professor of environmental design, Politecnico di Milano. He lives in Milan, IT.
Lit.: T. M., »Max Bill«, Buenos Aires, 1955. T. M., “Design-Objekte und Kunst-Objekte,” in: »ulm«, 7, 1963, pp. 18–24. T. M. and Gui Bonsiepe, “Wissenschaft und Gestaltung” / “Science and Design,” in »ulm«, 10/11, 1964, pp. 10–29.
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