NAME: Atelier Biagetti WORDS: By Nico Fedi e Paolo Oliveri LINKS: WWW words like culture, humanity and profession are actually the fundamental elements of every
Matteo Costanzo and Gianfranco Bombaci have been working together since their university days, with their strong desire to create architecture that pays particular attention to art and philosophical thought.
If we want to summarise in a single word the many activities that Cristina Lello must know to do her job, it would be stylist. But we could also call she, set designer and art director.
Andrew Trotter is an English designer who lives between Spain and Italy. During his life he visited many places and worked with a lot of different people.
Fernando Maldonado is a young designer who lives in Guatemala City. His projects arise from concepts and ideas, the shape is only a consequence of these. Sometimes his objects are concise and linear, others exactly the opposite.
Fernando loves 3D modeling and his attention to the representation of the object is very accurate and studied.
June 2020 NAME: Modus Architects INTERVIEW by: Nico Fedi e Paolo Oliveri LINKS: Modus Architects we understood that our identity was to be “citizens of
Aldo Amoretti is an architect who after practicing this profession for several years, decided at a mature age to change jobs and become an architectural photographer. Right from the beginning his shots were successful and allowed him to win important prizes and attract attention on the world scene. Today Aldo Amoretti can boast among its customers some of the most acclaimed studios on the planet, Peter Zumthor, BIG and Snøhetta just to name a few.
Paolo Brescia and Tommaso Principi met when they both worked in Renzo Piano’s studio. After a few years of practice, the desire to participate in some architectural competitions was too great and so they decided to found their own firm.
Mesura is a young Spanish studio based in Barcelona. Mesura in 2011 won Europan in Dubrovnik and the slogan of the competition was Back to Citizens. This concept is very important for the philosophy of the studio because Mesura wants a democratic architecture that does not dominate the context, but instead arises from the exchange of ideas between people.
Pablo Pérez Palacios is the founder and principal of PPAA – Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados. During the interview Pablo Pérez will talk about the importance of the ideas that generate the project and how the project itself can become a diffuser of concepts.
Horizontal (Orizzontale) is a collective of architects from Rome whose working dynamics and projects are strongly detached from the classic architectural studios. Each of Orizzontale’s works comes about through reflection on contemporary issues and it uses architecture as a means for proposing solutions or for raising public awareness.
The interview with Fabio Novembre, character outside the box and with a strong charisma, that mixes architecture, design, fittings and interiors in his journey, thanks to the use of a language that is never taken for granted and always looking for novelty.
Matteo Cibic is considered by many to be one of the most interesting contemporary designers. As the grandson and pupil of the famous uncle Aldo, he has been able, over the years, to find his own language capable of sending strong messages that have a certain ring to them.
Carlo Ratti is an engineer and an architect who combines research and teaching activities with those of designer. For some years he has been working at MIT where he teaches and directs the Senseable City Lab, a research laboratory that investigates and proposes visions for the city of the future.
Yichen Lu is the founder of the Link-Arc Studio that designed the Chinese pavilion at Expo Milano 2015. Yichen Lu, Chinese by birth, has a multi-ethnic cultural and working background, before founding his own studio he obtained a master’s degree in architecture at Yale and won numerous awards, he also played an important role in the Gehry Partners studio and Steven Holl Architects .
Fabrizio Michielon and Sergio de Gioia founded MIDE Architetti in 2010, after studying together with the IUAV in Venice. Despite their young age, they already have many projects underway
Talking to Massimo Vitali means listening to a direct person who at the same time is precise in affirming his own thoughts. He has often been called the beach photographer and as he himself will explain in this interview, what attracts him is not what they are wearing, but the people themselves.
Filippo Pagliani and Michele Rossi are the founders of Park Associates, an important Italian company based in Milan that has made the design of spaces in the tertiary sector its core business
