Luciano Pagani and Angelo Perversi graduated in Architecture from the Milan Polytechnic in 1976. In the mid-80s, they founded Pagani Perversi Architects, a studio that offers integrated services for architecture, product design, and lighting engineering projects.
The studio’s most important architectural works include the Roman offices of the La Repubblica newspaper, the Corriere della Sera offices in Milan and Rome, the Gazzetta dello Sport offices, and the Italian branch offices of Hewlett-Packard.
The studio’s special attention to the link between architecture and light has led these two architects to create numerous projects for art galleries, museums, and public buildings. In the product design world, the studio works with many big names in international design. , including FontanaArte, for whom they designed ‘Thor’, a very original series of lamps featuring a curved diffuser in blown glass.
Pagani Perversi Architects have won 2 Compasso d’Oro awards: in 1987, for the Hook System modular bookcases, designed for Joint, and in 1998, for the office tables and storage units Move and Flipper, designed for Unifor.
Since 1999 they have taught degree course in Industrial Design at the Faculty of Architecture at Milan Polytechnic.