The arch. Marco Casamonti has been chosen as ambassador of Italian Design in Vietnam in the important event Italian Design Day 2020 - IDD, organized from 2017 by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation with the support of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and for Tourism.
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Laura Andreini participated in "2050 Archifest – abitare il mondo altrimenti", in Colle val d'Elsa, during the closing day "Genealogy as destiny. Illuminare il pensiero di Giovanni Michelucci per un riflesso di luce sulla contemporaneità.", coordinated by Domenico Faraco (Peluffo& Partners) during the day dedicated to Architect Giovanni Michelucci to
International magazine of architecture and project design september / october 2020
Emotional materails
With the conviction that it is difficult for an architectural magazine to illustrate the efforts and research that lead to the realisation of an idea, Area, with this issue, would like to bring to
We are pleased to announce that the video “Water is Another Matter”, about the project of the Ex-Magazzino Vini - Eataly Store in Trieste, was awarded the Bronze Medal at the Sound and Vision International Film & Technology Festival in New York. The short film, that narrates the relationship
From 20 April 2018, the Museo Novecento will periodically host "Paradigma - The architect's table", a series of meetings featuring famous architects, collectives and architectural studios from the contemporary panorama designed by Sergio Risaliti and curated by Laura Andreini.
During the most dramatic period of the health emergency that hit
International magazine of architecture and project design july/august 2020
The project between water and land
For some years we have been engaged as a studio in the design of spaces and places located on the border between the mainland and the water and, whether rivers,
Laura Andreini took part in the webinar organized by the Department of Architecture of the University of Florence, in connection with the arch. Nazila Khaghani from the University of Tehran to talk about architecture and the figure of the architect in relation to the profession and the new needs
The arch. Marco Casamonti participated in the webinar organized by Faraone Campus “IMPIANTI SPORTIVI: IL MODELLO INGLESE. Progettare lo spettacolo in sicurezza” to talk about sports facilities with interesting insights on the project of the National Stadium of Albania in Tirana.
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International magazine of architecture and project design may/june 2020
After lockdown we will start moving around again... but how?
The recent unexpected and mandatory lockdown has taught us, in addition to the inadequacy of many of the domestic spaces in which we live, the extreme
The roofing prototype for the Cittadella del Carnevale di Viareggio is a collective work, called CO.MO.VA, started in 2018 and carried out with several partners from the fields of architecture, engineering and design. The overall objective of the project was the creation of a modular prototype concept for
Piazza Italia, the new urban project designed by Marco Casamonti / Archea Associati in collaboration with local authorities and the Italian Embassy in Brazil, has been inaugurated in Rio de Janeiro. The project, conceived as a place for cultural exchange and interaction, celebrates the historical and contemporary ties between Italy
On 20 April 2024, the inauguration of the new ECEPDI - East China Electronic Power Design Institute project, signed by Archea Associati, took place in Shanghai, where architect Giovanni Polazzi spoke to present the Chinese giant's new headquarters: a 16-storey building in which all functional requirements are centralised, a true landmark
On Saturday 13 July 2024, a work by Emilio Isgrò, produced in collaboration with Archea Associati, was inaugurated in Piazza Matteotti in Montale: a tribute to the fallen police and state servants, consisting of a sentence by General Carlo Emilio Dalla Chiesa: "Certain things are not done out of courage, they
Albania's National Stadium has been chosen to host the first final of the new UEFA Europa Conference League 2022 competition. The UEFA Europa Conference League will be a continental football competition organised by UEFA, starting from the 2021-2022 season. It will be the third UEFA competition for prestigious clubs, after
On March 19, 2026, the Grand Prix du Design Paris 2025 awards ceremony took place in Paris, in the stunning setting of the Hotel Pullman Paris Montparnasse. The event is one of the most significant international gatherings in the world of contemporary architecture and design. The event brought together firms, professionals, and
We are proud to announce that our studio has been awarded the Gold Award – Professional Design Award at the CT Grand Prix Design Paris 2025, an international award promoted by the Sino-French International Design Exchange Exhibition and the Institut Français du Design.
The award was given to the
At the Awards Ceremony on Thursday, October 30, 2025, as part of the renowned “Architecture Madrid Awards” – 2025 edition – we are pleased to announce that Archea Associati received two Gold Medals for the projects “Kiss Bridge” and “Rocco B. Commisso Viola Park,” in the Landscape Planning and Culture & Sport Architecture categories,
The Auris Residenze project by Marco Casamonti / Archea Associati received an Honorable Mention at the 2025 International Architecture Awards®, an award given by the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, and the European Center for Architecture, Art, Design, and Urban Studies.
Located in Balneário Camboriú, Brazil, Auris
at the Folies architecturales du 21e siècle competition - promoted by the city of Montpellier.
The special mention was conferred yesterday 15 March at MIPIM. Archea Associati's proposal brings together the components that characterise the Ovalie district: the tree, the tower and the door.
Ten years on, Cantina Antinori's project has won first place in the World's Best Vineyards 2022, the prestigious ranking of the most impressive wineries from around the world. The jury that decides the winner is made up of more than 500 wine connoisseurs, sommeliers and travel and tourism experts, who submit
On July 10, 2025, at the Palazzo delle Federazioni in Milan, the conference “Sports Facilities of the Future - From Territory to Excellence” was held, an event aimed at designers, institutions, technicians and managers of the sports sector to explore issues related to the evolution of sports facilities in Italy.
On July 1, 2025, the conference “Landscape Regeneration in Industrialized Areas,” a moment of discussion among experts on the future of brownfields in Italy, was held at the Castle of Piombino. Among the protagonists of the meeting was architect Marco Casamonti, founder of Archea Associati, who illustrated the emblematic case of
Architect Marco Casamonti participated as a speaker at the conference "Ecosophy. Climate Change and Cultural Heritage: Actions and Interventions," held on June 25 in the prestigious Sala d'Arme of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.
The initiative, promoted to reflect on the relationship between cultural heritage and environmental crisis, brought together
The new 8-week intensive and immersive BIM course will start on 27 April 2023.
The course, organised by and under the technical collaboration of NTI-NKE, aims to train professionals not only in the knowledge of the BIM process, but to provide practical rules for the effective management of basic
Over the years, the world of architecture has seen a rapid evolution in design methodology dictated by the introduction of new systems, which have allowed architectural design to develop in an increasingly precise and rapid manner. Among the most commonly used methods at present is the BIM method, which
Architecture beyond genders and generations
I think I should be allowed to feel a little nostalgic, although I apologize and admit to being somewhat embarrassed about it. For one thing, I never like having to write autobiographically, and yet I have to accept the contradiction of looking back
Industrial reuse
There is an expression definition that has become familiar in our everyday language, “industrial archeology”, which refers literally to the study of ancient structures originally used as factories. The subject of antiquity and the study to which the term “archeology” refers etymologically does not appear always
Temporary architecture, freedom architecture
I do not remember exactly what year was it, yet I remember that during one of our informal talks, Pierluigi Nicolin, long standing executive editor of the renowned Lotus International magazine, brought my attention to what, in his opinion, was the most important architectural
If architecture is art and is viewed and thus experienced, as such, then when is it designed as the place in which art itself resides, whether a museum or an art gallery, the delicate problem arises of the relationship between container and content, between being and trespassing. On the
Miracle in Milan
A child follows a funeral procession into a city suspended between poverty and modernity, mud and marble, grief and hope. It’s the dramatic, moving opening scene of the movie “Miracle in Milan“ one of the most celebrated examples of Italian neorealist cinema. Through
International magazine of architecture and project design november/dicember 2021
Cultural identity and design
The first time I went to Vietnam after a few days spent observing the colonial architecture of Ho Chi Minh city and its new buildings, the result of a not very electrifying “
From the earliest human settlements, wood has been the foundational material of an architecture shaped by necessity and proximity to nature. Readily available and easily worked, it provided the means through which humans first established a constructive and symbolic relationship with their environment.
This primordial bond was given
The difference between natural and artificial intelligence is not limited to their different origins, or to the presumption of the superiority of the former, for having invented the latter, but concerns above all the mode of “inhabiting”, using and generating a thought and an argument: in the last analysis,
The publication “Architettura. Arte per l'Abitare. Gli editoriali di Area 1996–2025” (Architecture. Art for Living. Editorials from Area 1996–2025) brings together editorials written by architect Marco Casamonti during his thirty years as editor-in-chief of the architecture, design, and art magazine “Area,” published between 1996 and 2025.
The book, edited by the
Since the dawn of modernity, architecture has played a strategic role in representing the industrial world, translating the values of production, progress, and innovation into built form. The great factories of the early twentieth century were not merely manufacturing sites: they became ideological messages; symbols embedded in the urban
With all the technological innovation that has occurred in recent years, and after the experience of the pandemic period, we can safely say that the concept of the workplace is undergoing a major overhaul in terms of both the physical spaces themselves and the value that we attribute to
There are places and architectural structures that seem more harmonious and elegant than others, even when located in poor or rural settings, villages and districts. We may not immediately understand what fascinates us, but we remember them for their innate balance and the charm that reveals a rhetorical basis (
On November 8, 2024, the exhibition “Tribute: Architecture as a Form of Dialogue” curated by Luca Molinari Studio and dedicated to nine works by the Archea studio opened at the Galerie d'Architecture in Paris.
The exhibition highlighted the crucial role of dialogue between architect and client through a series of
Alfonso Femia signs the tenth appointment of the review Il table dell'architetto, the series of temporary exhibitions created in collaboration with the magazine AREA which features famous architects, collectives and architectural firms on the international contemporary scene. From 29 April to 5 October 2022, the internal loggia of the Museo Novecento will
On 28 April, for the cycle "Paradigma. Il tavolo dell'architetto", the ground floor loggia of the Museo Novecento in Florence will host the opening of GENDER GAP, curated by Laura Andreini, a gallery featuring the projects and maquettes of 20 international female architects: Carmen Andriani, Sandy Attia, Cristina Celestino, Izaskun Chinchilla,
We are pleased to announce that the video “Water is Another Matter”, about the project of the Ex-Magazzino Vini - Eataly Store in Trieste, was awarded the Bronze Medal at the Sound and Vision International Film & Technology Festival in New York. The short film, that narrates the relationship
From 20 April 2018, the Museo Novecento will periodically host "Paradigma - The architect's table", a series of meetings featuring famous architects, collectives and architectural studios from the contemporary panorama designed by Sergio Risaliti and curated by Laura Andreini.
During the most dramatic period of the health emergency that hit
The event curated by architect Laura Andreini is part of the cycle of conferences "Paradigma. Il tavolo dell'architetto", the periodic project organized in collaboration with the Museo Novecento of Florence, a series of events that celebrates famous architects of the international contemporary scene. In this seventh event, scheduled from
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