Tomás Maldonado

Early life

Career

The early years

The Italian experience

The academic career

• Tomás Maldonado was professor of Environmental Design at Politecnico di Milano University.
• Between 1954 and 1966 he taught at the Ulm School of Design in Germany and served as both Rector and Prorector. The leading contributor to the "Ulm Model", Maldonado oriented design education towards systems-thinking to attain a balance between science and design, and between theory and practice, incorporating planning methods, perceptual theory and semiotics, A description of the approach is his essay entitled, "Ulm, Science and Design".
• In 1965 he was the "Lethaby Lecturer" at London's Royal College of Art. The following year, he became a Council of Humanities Fellow at Princeton.
• Between 1967 and 1970 he taught the "Class of 1913" chair at Princeton's School of Architecture.
• In 1971 he was appointed to the philosophical faculty of Bologna University. Between 1976 and 1984 he worked as full professor of Environmental Design at University of Bologna's Faculty of Humanities and Philosophy.

  Selected works

• Ulm, Science and Design
• Industrial Design reconsidered
• Is Architecture a Text?
• Towards an Ecological Rationalism
• Technique and Culture, the German debate between Bismarck and Weimar
• The Heterodoxo