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Lecture by Fabio Gigone and Angela Gigliotti (U67).

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Fabio Gigone and Angela Gigliotti, architects and co-founders at U67, based in Aarhus, Denmark, will lecture on Tuesday 14 February at 5 pm at Kent State University Florence CAED.

U67 – Exhibition at Campo Space
U67 – Exhibition at Campo Space
U67 – Exhibition at Campo Space
U67 – Installation at Bibliotek Aarhus Arkitektskolen
U67 – Installation at Bibliotek Aarhus Arkitektskolen
U67 – Installation at Bibliotek Aarhus Arkitektskolen
U67 – Installation at Dreyers Arkitektur Galleri
U67 – Installation at Dreyers Arkitektur Galleri
U67 – Six square meters
U67 – Six square meters
U67 – Six square meters
U67 – Six square meters

Tsuyoshi Tane is a Japanese architect based in Paris. Born in Tokyo, he Graduated from Hokkaido Tokai University in Japan in 2002 and completed the Post-graduate program at The Royal Danish Academy of fine Arts in Denmark in 2003. Between 2003 and 2005 he worked at Henning Larsen Architects in Denmark and at David Adjaye Associates in the UK. He founded ATTA – Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects in Paris in 2017, after being co-founder of DGT in 2006. Tsuyoshi believes in the idea that architecture belongs to the memory of the place and unfolded his thinking in the concept of “Archaeology of the Future”. Among his major works are the Estonian National Museum (2016), the Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art (2020), the Al Thani Collection (2021). He is currently working on the Imperial Hotel Tokyo to be completed in 2036. In his career, he has received numerous awards and honors, including the Grand Prix AFEX 2021 – French Architects Overseas, the Jean Dejean Prize by the Académie d’Architecture Française, the Estonian Cultural Endowment Grand Prix. He was nominated for the European Union Mies van der Rohe Award in 2017. He published the monograph “TSUYOSHI TANE Archaeology of the Future” (TOTO publisher).
www.at-ta.fr

Lecture by Tsuyoshi Tane (Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects).

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Tsuyoshi Tane, architect and principal at Paris-based Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects, will lecture on Tuesday 7 February at 5 pm at Kent State University Florence CAED.

Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Hirosaki, Japan. Photo © Daici Ano
Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Hirosaki, Japan. Photo © Daici Ano
Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Hirosaki, Japan. Photo © Daici Ano
Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia. Photo © Propapanda
Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects, Todoroki House in Valley, Tokyo, Japan. Photo © Yuna Yagi
Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects, Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan. Rendering © Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects
Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects, Light is Time, Installation for Citizen at the Salone del Mobile in Milano. Photo © Takuji Shimmura
Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects, The Al Thani Collection museum space at Hôtel de la Marine, Paris, France. Photo © Takuji Shimmura

Tsuyoshi Tane is a Japanese architect based in Paris. Born in Tokyo, he Graduated from Hokkaido Tokai University in Japan in 2002 and completed the Post-graduate program at The Royal Danish Academy of fine Arts in Denmark in 2003. Between 2003 and 2005 he worked at Henning Larsen Architects in Denmark and at David Adjaye Associates in the UK. He founded ATTA – Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects in Paris in 2017, after being co-founder of DGT in 2006. Tsuyoshi believes in the idea that architecture belongs to the memory of the place and unfolded his thinking in the concept of “Archaeology of the Future”. Among his major works are the Estonian National Museum (2016), the Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art (2020), the Al Thani Collection (2021). He is currently working on the Imperial Hotel Tokyo to be completed in 2036. In his career, he has received numerous awards and honors, including the Grand Prix AFEX 2021 – French Architects Overseas, the Jean Dejean Prize by the Académie d’Architecture Française, the Estonian Cultural Endowment Grand Prix. He was nominated for the European Union Mies van der Rohe Award in 2017. He published the monograph “TSUYOSHI TANE Archaeology of the Future” (TOTO publisher).
www.at-ta.fr

Lecture by Stefano Pujatti (ELASTICOFarm).

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Stefano Pujatti,architect and principal at ELASTICOFarm, will lecture on Tuesday October 25 at 5 pm at Kent State University Florence CAED.

ELASTICOFarm, Slowhorse, Italy. Photo by Jacopo Riccesi
ELASTICOFarm, Atelier Fleuriste, photo by Beppe Giardino
ELASTICOFarm, Atelier Fleuriste, photo by Beppe Giardino
ELASTICOFarm, Houses of Cards, Italy. Photo by Atelier XYZ
ELASTICOFarm, Houses of Cards, Italy. Photo by Atelier XYZ
ELASTICOFarm, Fisherman’s House, photo by Pino Dell’Aquila
ELASTICOFarm, Fisherman’s House, photo by Pino Dell’Aquila
ELASTICOFarm, Stoned (House 2 – Flying Stones House), photo by Mattia Balsamini

ELASTICOFarm is an architecture and product design studio founded by Stefano Pujatti, Alberto Del Maschio and Sara dal Gallo in 2005, based in Chieri and Pordenone (Italy) and Toronto (Canada). 

Stefano Pujatti was visiting professor at the University of Toronto from 2014 to 2016, at the Faculty of Architecture of the Politecnico di Torino from 2005 to 2014 and has been invited as a speaker at numerous university institutions including RMIT in Melbourne, Hosei University in Tokyo, Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio, IUAV Venice. 

In architecture, ELASTICOFarm’s research focuses on the relationship between the forces and elements of nature, their impact on man and the built environment. Every new project is an opportunity to study and experiment with materials, technology and geometry. Their buildings and products have won important acknowledgements at national and international exhibitions, awards and publications. These include the Venice Architecture Biennale (2006, 2010, 2014, 2021), the monographic exhibition Form Matters at the Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto (2015), the in/arch-ANCE award (2006). Elastico Farm was a finalist of the Mies van der Rohe Award in 2013 and nominated in 2019 and in 2022 with two projects: Le bâtiment descendant l’escalier and Houses of cards. In the field of product design in 2019 ELASTICOFarm won first prize at the RED DOT Award, the LF design Award and the Green Design Award. 

The monograph Architettura al sangue was published in 2008. In 2019 ELASTICOFarm was guest-editor of an issue of the IQD magazine titled I Don’t Know. 

Lecture by Alberto Iacovoni (ma0).

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Alberto Iacovoni, architect and founding partner at ma0, will lecture on Tuesday october 18 at 5 pm at Kent State University Florence CAED.

ma0, IaN+ and 2a+p, Maria Grazia Cutuli School in Herat, Afghanistan
ma0, IaN+ and 2a+p, Maria Grazia Cutuli School in Herat, Afghanistan. Photo by Giovanna Silva
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Processed with Snapseed.
ma0, Piazza Risorgimento in Bari, Italy. Photo by Roberto Dell’Orco
ma0, Soft Space for the Sony PSP Pavilion in Rome, Italy
ma0, Yeonsu-gu Youth Center in Incheon-si, South Korea
ma0, Piazza Umberto in Bari, Italy

Alberto Iacovoni, architect, is a founding member of the architecture firm ma0/emmeazero (www.ma0.it), which started in 1996. Between 1999 and 2004 he was a member of Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade (www.osservatorionomade.net). Constantly drawing upon the feedback between theory and practice through commissions, competitions, lectures, and workshops, each project becomes for ma0 an opportunity to explore the relationship between form and social role of architecture, which is, by choice, an open, interactive and process-based device.

The built projects are at present the Maria Grazia Cutuli School in Herat, Afghanistan (finalist at the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2013), the new library for the Lombardi School, Piazza Risorgimento and the public garden in via Matarrese in Bari, a square with underground parking in Macomer.

The most relevant unbuilt commissions are the Pincetto garden multifunctional complex in Perugia (1998-04), a masterplan for the city of Almere in The Netherlands (2007), the detailed design for the facades and public spaces of the Xi’An Milan Park Mall in Xi’an in China (2015) and a recent feasibility study for a museum for Acea in Rome (2021).

The work of ma0 has received several awards in national and international competitions, and was featured in important exhibitions, such as the 10th, 11th, 12th and 14th Architecture Biennale in Venice. Their projects were published in the most prestigious magazines and publications of architecture. 

Alberto has lectured at various universities and institutes, such as INARCH – National Institute of Architecture, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, NABA in Milan, and Cornell in Rome. Since 2000 he has taught at IED – Istituto Europeo di Design (www.ied.it) in Rome, where he was Director from 2009 to 2012, and later Scientific Director. Currently he is coordinator for the Master course in Exhibit Design at IED in Rome. 

Among his publications are Game Zone. Playgrounds Between Virtual Scenarios and Reality (Birkhauser, 2003); Playscape (Libria, 2010); and Il libretto rosa di ma0. Teoria e pratica del realismo utopico / Ma0’s Little Pink Book. Theory and Practice of Utopian Realism (2016).

Lecture by Annalisa Metta (OS/A).

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Annalisa Metta, founding partner at OS/A (OPEN SPACE / ARCHITECTURE), will lecture on Tuesday September 27 at 5 pm at Kent State University Florence CAED.

OS/A, The garden where we live” in Ciampino, Italy, 2018 (implemented).
OS/A, The garden where we live” in Ciampino, Italy, 2018 (implemented).
OS/A, Stairs garden in Potenza, Italy, 2016 (temporary garden, implemented).
OS/A, “Every Nine Days” temporary installation at the American Academy in Rome, 2022.
OS/A, “Every Nine Days” temporary installation at the American Academy in Rome, 2022.
OS/A, Fanoi temporary garden in Potenza, Italy, 2013 (implemented).
OS/A, Italian Garden in Craonne, France, 2018 (implemented).
OS/A, Italian Garden in Craonne, France, 2018 (implemented).

OS/A (OPEN SPACE / ARCHITECTURE) is a design studio, founded in 2021 from the previous experience of Osa architettura e paesaggio, already established in Rome in 2007. OS/A deals mainly with the design of open spaces, elaborating projects for parks of various kinds and scales, public and private gardens, squares, playgrounds and urban spaces, temporary installations, recovery of historical gardens, archaeological and monumental areas, infrastructures, reclamation of abandoned or under reconversion industrial sites. Its focus is landscape as an agent, in relation with the behaviours of human and not human beings.

Lecture by Filippo Bricolo (Bricolo+Falsarella).

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Filippo Bricolo, founding partner at Bricolo+Falsarella, will lecture on Tuesday September 20 at 5 pm at Kent State University Florence CAED.

Bricolo+Falsarella, Cantina Gorgo. Photo by Alessandra Chemollo.
Bricolo+Falsarella, Cantina Gorgo. Photo by Alessandra Chemollo.
Bricolo+Falsarella, The Brolo at Cantina Gorgo. The pavilion. Photo by Atelier XYZ.
Bricolo+Falsarella, The Brolo at Cantina Gorgo. The pavilion seen from the vineyard. Photo by Atelier XYZ.
Bricolo+Falsarella, The Brolo at Cantina Gorgo. The chimney. Photo by Atelier XYZ.
Bricolo+Falsarella, The Black Sketchbook of the Brolo at Cantina Gorgo.
Bricolo+Falsarella, East Wing at Castelvecchio Museum. Photo by Atelier XYZ.
Bricolo+Falsarella, East Wing at Castelvecchio Museum. Photo by Atelier XYZ.
Bricolo+Falsarella, Villa Saccomani – PH 01. Photo by Atelier XYZ.
Bricolo+Falsarella, Villa Saccomani – PH 02. Photo by Atelier XYZ.
Bricolo+Falsarella, The Brolo at Villa Saccomani. Photo by Atelier XYZ.
Bricolo+Falsarella, Villa Saccomani. Sketch.
02 – Bricolo+Falsarella, Villa Saccomani. Sketch
03 – Bricolo+Falsarella, Villa Saccomani. Sketch
04 – Bricolo+Falsarella, Villa Saccomani. Sketch

Francesca Falsarella and Filippo Bricolo studied at IUAV in Venice where they graduated together with full marks and honors. After some experience, in 2003 they set up Bricolo Falsarella associati based in their studio house on the Morainic hills of Garda Lake (Verona). Their works have received important awards in Italy and Europe. In 2015 they won the Architettiverona Prize for the restoration of Villa Saccomani in Sommacampagna, a prize they won again in 2021 with the Brolo della Cantina Gorgo in Custoza. The latter project was included in the exhibition “Nuove Cantine Italiane. Territori e Architetture” produced by Casabella, for which they also curated the installation at Palazzo Balladoro on the occasion of Vinitaly 2022. In the field of museography they have curated several installations at the Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona, where they finally restored the East Wing, working in the spaces left unfinished by Carlo Scarpa. Their works have been published in important magazines such as Casabella and Abitare. With reference to their intensely contextual and humanized architecture, they have been invited to hold conferences in Italy and abroad. Filippo Bricolo holds a PhD in architectural composition from the IUAV in Venice and has been continuously teaching for several years. He currently teaches at the Mantua campus of the Politecnico di Milano with Brazilian architect Marcio Kogan, with whom he has a long-standing collaboration.

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www.bricolofalsarella.it

Lecture by Davide Rapp (-orama).

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Davide Rapp, architect and video artist, will lecture on Tuesday March 8 at 5 pm at Kent State University Florence CAED.

Davide Rapp (1980) is a Video Artist. Architect and Ph.D in Interior Design at Politecnico di Milano, he works across the fields of architecture and cinema producing mixed-media installations, movie montages and video-essays. In 2014 he participated as a contributor in the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – Fundamentals (Biennale Venezia, 2014) with ‘Elements’, a 32 minutes long montage of short architecture-related clips specifically conceived for the exhibition ‘Elements of Architecture’ curated by Rem Koolhaas, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 2021 he participated in competition at the 78th Venice International Film Festival with the virtual reality montage film “Montegelato”. His montage films and video essays have been screened in international museums and film festivals. The Milano Film Festival hosted his first retrospective in 2016 and the magazines “Cahiers du Cinéma” and “Sight & Sound” have included his montages among the most interesting video essays online. He is founder and creative director of the Milan-based creative agency ‘-orama’.

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Lecture by Simone Gobbo (DEMOGO).

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Simone Gobbo (founding partner at DEMOGO) will lecture on Tuesday March 1 at 5 pm at Kent State University Florence CAED.

DEMOGO, Gembloux Town Hall in Belgium (2015) – photo by Pietro Savorelli
DEMOGO, Gembloux Town Hall in Belgium (2015) – photo by Pietro Savorelli
DEMOGO, Gembloux Town Hall in Belgium (2015) – photo by Pietro Savorelli
DEMOGO, Gembloux Town Hall in Belgium (2015) – photo by Pietro Savorelli
DEMOGO, Gembloux Town Hall in Belgium (2015) – photo by Pietro Savorelli
DEMOGO, Gembloux Town Hall in Belgium (2015) – photo by Pietro Savorelli

DEMOGO was founded in 2007 by Simone Gobbo, Alberto Mottola and Davide De Marchi.
In 2009 they won the Europan10 international competition for the new Gembloux Town Hall in Belgium, completed in 2015 and awarded with the IQU Award for Innovation and Urban Quality. In 2010 the studio was invited by Europan Europe to participate in the international forum “Inventing urbanity” in Neuchâtel in Switzerland. They were awarded second prize in the under35 YIA “Young Italian Architects” selection and participated in the related traveling exhibition. They were part of the international exhibition “Backstage architecture” on the occasion of the Venice Architecture Biennale “People meet in architecture”. In 2012 DEMOGO was invited to the international forum “European urbanity” in Vienna to present the process of urban implementation and transformation of the new Town Hall under construction in Gembloux.
In 2015 DEMOGO won the competition for the reconstruction of the Bivouac Fanton on the Forcella Marmarole (at 2,667 meters above sea level) in the Dolomites. The project was completed in 2020 and published in the main international architecture magazines with a photographic narration by Iwan Baan.

 

 

DEMOGO, Bivouac Fanton in Forcella Marmarole (2020) – photo by Iwan Baan
DEMOGO, Bivouac Fanton in Forcella Marmarole (2020) – photo by Iwan Baan
DEMOGO, Bivouac Fanton in Forcella Marmarole (2020) – photo by Iwan Baan
DEMOGO, Bivouac Fanton in Forcella Marmarole (2020) – photo by Iwan Baan
DEMOGO, Bivouac Fanton in Forcella Marmarole (2020) – photo by Iwan Baan
DEMOGO, Bivouac Fanton in Forcella Marmarole (2020) – photo by Iwan Baan (6)
DEMOGO, Bivouac Fanton in Forcella Marmarole (2020) – photo by Iwan Baan

In 2015, the Italian National Council of Architects awarded DEMOGO with the “Young Talent of Italian Architecture” prize, testifying the value of the architectural research developed by the studio.
In 2016 DEMOGO was runner-up for the YAP 2016 “Young Architects Program” competition, an initiative promoted by MAXXI Architettura in partnership with MoMA / MoMA PS1 in New York, the cultural association CONSTRUCTO in Santiago de Chile, the Istanbul Modern museum and the MMCA in Seoul. In the same year, the studio was invited as Visiting Professor for the W.A.Ve. 2016 at the University of Architecture of Venice, IUAV. In 2017 they were awarded the “Dedalo Minosse” prize. In 2018 DEMOGO was selected among the 40 emerging European studios for the 40under40 award. In the same year, the Bivouac Fanton project was selected for the “Arcipelago Italia” curatorial program exhibited at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale in the Italian Pavilion. In the same year DEMOGO won the Gold Medal for Italian Architecture TYOUNG with the project for the Bivouac Fanton, on display at the Milan Triennale.
The studio constantly feeds an intense research activity. Its partners are visiting professors at the IUAV in Venice, the Polytechnic University in Genoa, and the University of Architecture in Ferrara.
Projects by DEMOGO  were published extensively, in Italian and international magazines, such as: L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Domus, Area, Abitare, Modulo, L’Arca, A10, B1 Magazine, A +, Mark.

www.demogo.it

Lecture by Erika Gaggia (act_romegialli).

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Erika Gaggia (partner at act_romegialli) will lecture on Tuesday February 15 at 5 pm at Kent State University Florence CAED. Her lecture, titled “do here do elsewhere / do there and not elsewhere”, will be introduced by prof. Federico Grazzini.

act_romegialli, Padiglione Canottieri Moto Guzzi in Mandello Lario (2010) – photo by Marcello Mariana
act_romegialli, Padiglione Canottieri Moto Guzzi in Mandello Lario (2010) – photo by Marcello Mariana

The firm, founded in 1996 by Gianmatteo Romegialli and Erika Gaggia, deals with architecture, urban design, interior design, object design and communication.

The cultural value of making architecture, the sense and feeling of a place, its history; these are the aspirations that establish the design of the office. The research of the essential characteristics of a site, interpreted and made contemporary to enhance and revive the history, identity and culture of a territory.

During these years act_romegialli has participated and won many architectural competitions. Its partners were invited to lecture at numerous institutions, among them Politecnico di Milano, Accademia Belle Arti Brera, Ecole d’architecture de Grenoble, Canberra University Department of Landscape Architecture, RMIT Melbourne, Accademia di Mendrisio and Universidad Politecnica de Valencia.

www.actromegialli.it

act_romegialli, House in Sampieri (2019) – photo by Marcello Mariana
act_romegialli, House in Sampieri (2019) – photo by Marcello Mariana

Lecture by Alessandra Rampazzo (AMAA).

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Alessandra Rampazzo (co-director at AMAA) will lecture on Tuesday February 8 at 5 pm at Kent State University Florence CAED. Her lecture, titled “WHAT’S ALREADY THERE? Designing in-between old and new”, will be introduced by prof. Paola Giaconia, Kent State University Florence CAED coordinator.

AMAA, FINAL OUTCOME – AMAA workshop in Arzignano (2019) – model – photo by Francesca Vinci
AMAA, FINAL OUTCOME – AMAA workshop in Arzignano (2019) – model – photo by Francesca Vinci

AMAA was founded in 2012 by Marcello Galiotto and Alessandra Rampazzo, after their professional experiences with Massimo Carmassi and Sou Fujimoto. They couple their professional practice with academic research and teaching: they both graduated from IUAV in 2010 and completed their PhD in Architectural Design (Galiotto, 2015) and History of Architecture (Rampazzo, 2017).

AMAA, FINAL OUTCOME – AMAA workshop in Arzignano (2019) – photo by Simone Bossi
AMAA, FINAL OUTCOME – AMAA workshop in Arzignano (2019) – photo by Simone Bossi
AMAA, FINAL OUTCOME – AMAA workshop in Arzignano (2019) – photo by Simone Bossi
AMAA, FINAL OUTCOME – AMAA workshop in Arzignano (2019) – photo by Simone Bossi

They are used to work at a variety of scales, from small details to global designs, thanks to their multidisciplinary team and to collaboration with consultants, both in their private commissions and in the national and international competitions they participate in. Architecture is indeed a collaborative attitude rather than the expression of a personal voice.

AMAA, Space within a Space in Arzignano (2020) – model – photo by Francesca Vinci

They have received several national and international awards. In 2015 they were selected as finalists in the Federico Maggia Award 2015, and as Architects of the Year Under 36 – New Italian Blood. In 2019 they received the Special Mention in Europan 15 competition (Graz, AT) for the project Island (e)scape. In 2019, AMAA won first prize for the design and construction of a 9-apartment housing building for IPES in Bressanone (Bolzano) and for the extension of the ‘Rosa dei Venti’ nursing home in Borgo Chiese (Trento), both currently at the final design stage. In 2020, they were awarded first prize for the design of Verdi Theater in Terni, Italy. In 2021, in team with DEMOGO and Angelo Renna, AMAA won first prize for the urban renovation project proposal “Polo Civico Flaminio” in Rome.

AMAA, Città dei modelli – photo by Francesca Vinci
AMAA, Città dei modelli – photo by Francesca Vinci

The restoration of the Santa Croce Convent in Venice received the honorable mention in the Cappochin Award 2015 (regional section), while the renovation of The [B] Zone was selected among the 10 best regional works in the Cappochin Award 2017 and selected as finalist in The Plan Award 2018. In 2020, AMAA’s ‘Final Outcome’ project was awarded first prize in the Young Italian Architects competition.

Their main office is in Venice, and since 2015 they have a branch office in Arzignano (Vicenza).

www.amaa.studio