Fabrizio
Giugiaro
As a teenager, free from school chores, he followed his father Giorgetto immersing himself enthusiastically in the magical atmosphere of Italdesign: the Style Centre, the Modelling shop, the Prototype Construction Workshop. In the second part of the Eighties he took a proactive part in the creation of several experimental projects such as Machimoto (1986) and Aztec (1988).
In 1991 he entered the atelier of Moncalieri full-time and, besides dealing with the style centre, he began to manage technological matters with great passion.
The complementary nature of this world transmitted to him that exhaustive culture of the project which implies experimentation of new composite structural materials for frames and sub-groups, engines applied to new sources of propulsion, techniques of allocating the mechanical equipment in the chassis layout, the most innovative safety equipment, driver assistance systems, on board comfort and infotainment.
In 1991 Fabrizio took on the responsibility of managing research cars. His creativity expressed itself in independent projects of experimental vehicles and in the construction and performance concept of the vehicle developed at the business Engineering centres. At the same time he attended the two-year Management Course of the Turin Industrial Union attaining a diploma in Business Administration.
In July 1995 he was appointed Head of the Style and Prototype Department of Italdesign, supervising a hundred employees and developing from 30 to 150 projects a year. Since 2004 he has been also in charge of managing Giugiaro Design which, alongside the parent company, has been developing exclusively non-automobile design projects since 1981. In 2010 Italdesign became part of the Volkswagen Group. Fabrizio covered the same role for 3 years, before taking on the position of style consultant for the Group, reporting directly to the Style Manager of the Volkswagen Group.
Giugiaro Architettura was set up in 2003, with Fabrizio as the majority shareholder, President and Creative Director. The firm, located in Moncalieri in a prestigious 18th century building, manages all the national and international aspects of architectural design, from the preliminary to the executive, from master planning to interior design.
The role of the company has developed quickly over recent years, achieving prestigious commitments in public and private constructions. Over 70 projects have been developed, including: the Atrium pavilions for the XX Winter Olympic Games of Turin 2006, the upgrading of Milan Central Station, the design of the exteriors of the Juventus Stadium.
On 15 March 2012 Fabrizio Giugiaro was awarded a degree honoris causa in Architecture from the Georgian Technical University of Tblisi, and won the Compasso d’Oro for Design in 2014.
In 2016, alongside his father Giorgetto, he created GFG Progetti, a new company totally dedicated to design services for the mobility industry consisting of two brands, GFG Style and GFG Rail. Following the line of work developed in more than 50 years of operations in the sector, GFG Progetti continues the process of stylistic and functional methods characterizing the Giugiaro family in all the design activities of vehicle development: concept, CAS, feasibility and mock-ups becoming its core business.
