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
Fabio Fantolino represents one of the most interesting figures among that type of designers who are called interior designers and who have collaborated a lot in spreading the Italian style
In 1999 Cucinella founded the studio MC A – Mario Cucinella Architects which would become an important actuality in the European architectural panorama and today it is certainly one of the most prestigious design activities in our country.
Studio Wok is a young architectural firm that in recent times, thanks to some of its work, is becoming increasingly known. Its most famous project, the renovation of a rural house near Verona, is characterised by an architecture linked to the context, designed with an aesthetic approach and contemporary construction techniques.
Piuarch founded in 1996 by Francesco Fresa, Germán Fuenmayor, Gino Garbellini and Monica Tricario is an architectural firm based in Milan. Over the years he has had the opportunity to establish a relationship of trust with Dolce and Gabbana for which he has built several buildings and has recently created the Gucci headquarters for Kering.
LucidiPevere is a studio in Palmanova that was founded in 2006 by Paolo Lucidi and Luca Pevere. Little by little the quality of their work began to attract the attention of the international brands. Today, LucidiPevere has among its customers De Padova, Zanotta, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, Agape, Ligne Roset, Foscarini, Kristalia, Normann Copenhagen and many others.
The following is an interview with Filippo Pisan, a young designer, who since 2011 has been manager of De Castelli’s research and development.
The interview with Maria Claudia Clemente and Francesco Isidori founders of Labics Studio.
Interview with Michaela Wolf, professor of “entwurf und raum” (design and space) at the Rosenheim Hochschule and founder, together with Gerd Bergmeister of Bergmeisterwolf Architekten.
Gabriele Salvatori is the Creative Director of the family company founded by his grandfather at the end of the Second World War. But it is with his arrival that collaborations are born with John Pawson, Piero Lissoni, Michael Anastassiades and many others.
Marco Di Lauro is a war photojournalist. He has personally experienced and documented many territories that are difficult for us in the Western world to understand.
Simone Bossi is one of the most appreciated young architectural photographers of the moment. He has worked with leading architects such as Herzog & de Meuron, his photos have been published in the monograph Sou Fujimoto’s Architecture Works 1995-2005.
