International magazine of architecture and project design november/december 2013
Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas: the power of imagination
The Shenzhen Airport, the first major work designed and built by the Fuksas firm in China, has only just been opened as I venture on my critical reflection on 
Between 20 October- 19 December 2013, Archea is exhibiting at the Biennial of Architecture and Contemporary Art in Shanghai, a show organized in a former industrial district of Shanghai, once for manufacturing ceramics.
The event strives to be an opportunity to keep up to date and dialogue on recent developments in
International magazine of architecture and project design september/october 2013
Architectural typology vs. behavioural typology
From a scholarly standpoint, we habitually classify buildings and architectures on the basis of their use, or on the basis of the specific features and particular elements that derive from the purpose
International magazine of architecture and project design may/june 2013
Informal community
If images of slums, informal and spontaneous communities, favelas or whatever we want to call urban areas of povertà and hardship dominated the first room of the Corderie dell'Arsenale at the last Venice Biennial titled
The UBPA B3-2 exhibition pavilion, realized for the Expo Shanghai 2010, and the GEL-Green Energy Laboratory research centre which was opened in May 2012 at the Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, are the two projects chosen to represent Studio Archea’s recent activities in China within the context of the
International magazine of architecture and project design april 2013
Colour, or what unites and reveals the distance between warmth and odour.
Any creative act, project, artistic discipline or, more simply, any product of human activities provokes sensations or sentiments that interfere with our senses, stimulating them and
International magazine of architecture and project design january/february 2013
Hamburg, reflections of water and architecture
In Hamburg a red brick red thread connects the spectacular and famous Elbphilarmonie building designed by Herzog & de Meuron, still in construction, with the expressive contours of Fritz Höger's
International magazine of architecture and project design november/december 2012
Cino Zucchi: from the MIT to the Polytechnic and back
To suggest a critical reading of an architect and a work that is so close both on a personal level and on a professional one may entail
Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 7 November 2012
Architect Marco Casamonti featured as one of the lecturers at the fourth edition of the international architecture forum Arq.Futuro, hosted in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte on the 6th and 7th November 2012.
The event, which was first held in 2011 and
The round table Architecture and ceramics which was held on 29 September 2012, within the context of the event Sticciano 2012 The fire continues, vaunted architect Giovanni Polazzi as one of the participants.
The event, held in the Medicean estate of Sticciano under the aegis of the Municipality of Certaldo, centred
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 April 22, 2026, architect Marco Casamonti took part in “HYLEtech Lab. Light in Matter. Architecture Variations,” an initiative hosted at the Triennale Milano as part of Milan Design Week.
Conceived as an open laboratory, the project brought together international firms invited to discuss the relationship between materials technology, spatial
Architects Marco Casamonti and Laura Andreini participated in the talk “REBUILD. Transforming Construction” on March 25, 2026, in Madrid, as part of the REBUILD 2026 international conference.
The event, a key forum for debate on innovation in the construction sector, brought together professionals and stakeholders to explore the themes of sustainability,
On February 18, 2026, at the MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo in Rome, Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi's new book, “Storia dell’Architettura italiana dal 2000 a oggi,” was presented at an event that brought together leading figures and scholars from the contemporary architectural scene.
Among the guests invited to
Archea Associati took part in Webinar Week, a series of online events promoted by Architecture Hunter, entitled “A talk on how vision, management, and strategy come together to build meaningful spaces,” a discussion dedicated to the themes of design vision and the processes that guide contemporary architecture.
Among
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
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 “
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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