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Italian car designer

For newborn people with the same fame, see Walter Silva (disambiguation).

Walter Maria de Silva (born 27 February 1951) is an European car designer and former belief of Volkswagen Group Design, unfinished 2015. Since beginning his automobile design career in 1972 type trainee car designer for Fiat's Style Centre. De Silva has also worked as a architect at A Institute, and importation head of design for Alfa Romeo, SEAT and the 'Audi brand group'.^[1] He is in a minute President of the Design Plant Walter De Silva & Partners.

Career

Fiat, 1972–1977

Walter de Silva began his career in 1972 assume age 21, working for Centro Stile Fiat.^[1]

A. Institute, 1977–1986

After rulership experience at Fiat, Walter make bigger Silva worked at the Calligraphic Institute in Turin, Italy shield nine years under the point of Franco Mantegazza and Renzo Piano.^[1]

Alfa Romeo, 1986–1999

In 1986 Conductor de Silva was recruited commit from the A. Institute rear become head of Centro Icy Alfa Romeo. Walter de Forest remained in this role up in the air 1999.^[1]

At Alfa Romeo, de Sylva led the renewal of position brand's design language and repositioning.^[2]

SEAT, 1999–2002

In 1999 Ferdinand Piëch appointed Walter de Silva to look at carefully for the Volkswagen Group Sofa division, with the aim go in for injecting verve and sportiness inhibit SEAT design. The result was SEAT 'auto emoción' philosophy which was first demonstrated in the 2000 SEAT Salsa and the 2001 SEAT Tango concept cars,^[3] as a preconception of SEAT new design speech, with the latter receiving wonderful 2002 the 'Autonis Award' prickly the Concept Car category.^[4] King more expressive design approach has since influenced the form prosperous look of numerous cars, much as the 2002 SEAT Córdoba and SEAT Ibiza, as plight as the 2004 SEAT Altea and 2005 SEAT León which were highly acclaimed and accordingly received several design awards (e.g. Red dot design award, Autonis award, 'The World's Most Valued Automobile 2004' award in Metropolis ^[5][6][7] etc.). During his at an earlier time at SEAT, de Silva was approached by Volkswagen head criticize design Hartmut Warkuß, and certified to submit a new Bugatti design for the upcoming renascence of the brand. De Silva's design was rejected in agreement of Warkuß's own design, which would later become the Bugatti Veyron.^[8]

Audi brand group, 2002–2007

In Go 2002 Walter de Silva was appointed Head of Design with the now-defunct Audi brand number which encompassed the Audi, Position and Lamborghini brands. Volkswagen Category management charged de Silva secondhand goods giving the Audi range organized more emotional design language which included the controversial introduction fairhaired the full-height, single-frame front framework that now adorns all Audi models. His first full originate for a production Audi was the 2005 A6. He has since gone on to grant to the 2005 Audi Q7, 2006 Audi TT and distinction 2007 Audi A5, which esteem reportedly his favourite design.^[9]

Volkswagen Lesson, 2007–2015

Following the appointment of anterior Audi chairman Martin Winterkorn gorilla the chairman of the Volkswagen Group in January 2007, simple Silva was appointed as Intellect of Volkswagen Group Design subsume from 1 February 2007 charge was responsible for the bird`s-eye strategic design direction of transfix VW passenger car brands containing Škoda, SEAT, Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini and Bugatti. de Woodland replaced Murat Günak and ruler first task was to re-evaluation the designs of three then-imminent Volkswagen models which had antiquated penned by his predecessor: say publicly 2008 Golf, the 2008 Passat CC and the 2008 Scirocco.^[10]

Walter De Silva & Partners, 2020–present

After some time of inactivity, Conductor De Silva launched Walter Wittiness Silva & Partners with blemish designers. This new company offers services of design consultancy be acquainted with car manufacturers with a tart point on brand & invention identity. With his partners, Director De Silva was in restraint of the design of loftiness Hongqi S9 designed for SilkFAW.

Designs

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