Alessi Coffee pot white

Riccardo Dalisi was born on May 1, 1931, in Potenza and held the chair of architectural design at the Faculty of Architecture of the Federico II University of Naples until 2007. At the same faculty, he served as director and lecturer of the School of Industrial Design.

Always engaged in social work, he combined research and teaching in the fields of architecture and design, increasingly approaching artistic expression as the royal path of his life. In 1981, he won the Compasso d'Oro award for his research on the Neapolitan coffee maker.

After extensive preparatory research, he presented the first edition of the Compasso di Latta award in 2009 in collaboration with the Milan Triennale and the New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, an initiative for new research in the field of design in support of humanity, environmental sustainability, and degrowth. In 2014, he won his second Compasso d'Oro for his social commitment.