Umberto Riva (1928-2021) was an architect and designer, one of the masters of
Italian architecture between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A student of
Carlo Scarpa, he inherited from him the artistic and artisanal attitude of the project, the taste for open forms and the sensitivity for an operational scale that extends from the material detail to the landscape. His work ranges from the design of objects and lamps where light becomes the protagonist, to urban housing projects, private and public buildings, exhibition installations and an important painting parenthesis.
