Odes to Joy: Remembering Cini Boeri (1924-2020)
Ask most architects to describe the objectives behind their designs and the same few words — impact, performance, flexibility — tend to come up. But joy? Not so much. That’s what makes the work and legacy of Cini Boeri, the Italian architect and furniture designer who died in Milan on September 9 aged 96, so unique — and timely.
Cini Boeri
Maria Cristina Mariani Dameno—better known as Cini Boeri—is a leading Italian architect and designer, the mother of the internationally renowned architect Stefano Boeri.
She graduated in architecture in 1951 from the Politecnico University in Milan. After a short experience with Gio Ponti—a famous master of Italian design and architecture—she started to collaborate with Marco Zanuso, another acclaimed architect and designer.