Arturo Dell'Acqua Bellavitis

Arturo Dell'Acqua Bellavitis (born 1947) is the current director of the Milan Triennale Foundation and Exposition.

Professional career

Apart from being the director of the Triennale, Bellavitis has his own architectural and design practice in Milan. Among other customers, he has worked for Twinings, Nestlé, Renault and HGV.

Academic career

Bellavitis has been a lecturer, and is now full professor of Industrial design, Interior design, Textile design and Fashion design at Polytechnic University of Milan in Milan, Italy. At the same university, he is also the director of the Polidesign project, chairman of the Fashion Design department, and since 1990 he has been the director of the Masters Degree in Design Management and Interior Design.

He has been visiting professor at many European and extra-European universities. He has lectured at the Royal Academy of Copenhagen (Denmark), at the Faculty of Architecture of Aarhus (Denmark), at De Montfort University (UK). He has conducted workshops at the Universities of Helsinki (Finland), Oslo (Norway), Orléans (France), Barcelona (Spain), Montreal (Canada), São Paulo (Brazil).

Dell'Acqua

Dell'Acqua is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: