Tissurao Globe Lamp, Prototype from the Pietra heirs. Ugo La Pietra was born in Bussi sul Tirino (Pescara) in 1938, originally from Arpino (Frosinone), and lives and works in Milan, where he graduated in Architecture from the Polytechnic in 1964. An architect by training, since 1960 he has defined himself as a researcher in the system of communication and visual arts, moving simultaneously in the territories of art and design. A tireless experimenter, he has passed through various currents (from Sign Painting to Conceptual Art, from Narrative Art to artist cinema) and used multiple mediums, conducting research that has materialized in the theory of the "Disequilibrating System" – an autonomous expression within Radical Design – and in important sociological themes such as "The Telematic House" (MoMA in New York, 1972 – Milan Fair, 1983), "Relationship between Real Space and Virtual Space" (Milan Triennale 1979, 1992), "The Neo-eclectic house" (Living time, 1990), "Seaside Culture" (Cattolica Cultural Center, 1985/95). He has communicated his work through many exhibitions in Italy and abroad, and in various exhibitions at the Milan Triennale, Venice Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon, FRAC Museum in Orlèans, Ceramics Museum of Faenza, Ragghianti Foundation of Lucca, Mudima Foundation of Milan, MA*GA Museum of Gallarate. He has always critically supported the humanistic, significant and territorial component of art and design with works and objects, with theoretical, didactic and editorial activity.