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I 'm an Italian architect who works in the fields of architectural design and interior design, urban planning and landscape design. Currently I'm working with several Italian engineering and architecture firms.

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Nicolas Turchi is a designer currently working at Zaha Hadid Architects and a Digital Futures PhD scholar at Tongji University. Nicolas holds a Master in Architecture II from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Bologna. He has worked for several firms including Eisenman Architects, Xefirotarch, Mario Cucinella Architects and 5+1AA. Nicolas is particularly interested in emergent technologies and how they affect the theoretical aspect of the discipline. Nicolas has also been studying the relationship between architecture and philosophy and graduated with a thesis on Time and Space in architecture, influenced by the thoughts of Henri Bergson and Edmund Husserl.

Dario Donato is Founder and Design Principal of Spatialconnection(s), responsible for the management, research and creative direction of the firm both in Italy and in international markets.

Since 2009 he has been worked both in practice and academia, from design as research to research as practice.

Before founding Spatialconnection(s) he has worked in several innovative and award-winning  international offices in Italy, China, and The Netherlands. He collaborated as Design Architect on a diverse range of high profile projects such as Gousen Securities Tower in Shenzhen with studio Fuksas, Wisdom Valley with Nbbj in Nanjing and University Church in Liepzig for Erick van Egeraat, plus some prize winning competitions.

Dario’s work is the result of the mediate world “From Complexity to Simplicity” that support the future implementation of an active conversation on the cultural agencies of current technologies and the ways they impact the architectural discipline for producing unconventional engineered architecture. Dario has started to pursue this line of research at IN/ARCH (National Italian Institute of Architecture) in Rome for the Master Emerging Technologies where he was the instructor of Scripting and Computational Geometry unit.

Since 2010 he taught and collaborated with academic and professional institutions in Europe and the Middle East including IUAV, IN/ARCH, Higher College of Technology...

Nowadays Dario is co-Programme Director and tutor at IAAC GSS Oman, investigating the post digital paradigm and its application in a context of multicultural society.

Dario received his master degree in Architectural Engineering at University of Pisa (Italy) and lately he received multiple awards as Young Talent of Architecture in Italy with two projects located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Award winning architect and engineer from Italy working across countries and cultures. Currently based in the Netherlands, he works as an architect also at OMA/Rem Koolhaas. Prior to joining OMA, Andrea worked at Kengo Kuma & Associates in Japan and at RCR Arquitectes in Spain.

L'architettura è una specie di oratoria della potenza per mezzo delle forme.
(Cit. F. Nietzsche)

Davide Marchetti received his Master’s in Architecture from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 2001 and joined the Massimiliano Fuksas Office in Rome upon graduation. The following year he became a member of the Italian Architects Registry, Chapter of Rome. In 2004, he began his own practice, specializing in architecture, urban planning and interior design. The office is driven by a consistent philosophical approach, not a predetermined style. It explores and develops new ways of thinking about architecture and the surrounding contextual environment in order to create models for change and innovation. Projects are approached with a comprehensive emphasis on environmental themes, materiality and cultural context. As a result, the studio aims to create specifically designed and detailed buildings that are deeply contextual with equal attention to function. High quality design results from the continuity of rigorous process and intensive dialogue with the client, consultants, contractors and inhabitants.Davide Marchetti has taught at Cornell University continuously from 2011, as a Visiting Critic in advanced design studios. He has been several times an invited critic at Pratt Institute, Syracuse University, Catholic University, University of Miami as well as at University of Rome La Sapienza and University of Pisa School of Engineering. He believes that the education of an architect manifests through a process; both the understanding and the application of the curriculum and studio discipline, as well as in the personal exploration of influences from multiple environments. These come from many sources, such as art and literature, science and medicine, history and economy. These conditions then consequently influence the scope of multidisciplinary practice that now permeates contemporary architecture. He is interested in fostering this environment, and adeptly responding to each students individual strengths, passions, and interests.

PROFFERLO is an architecture think tank focused on pavilions, exhibition design, and domestic spaces

Architect, graduated in Rome at La Sapienza, with A. Terranova and R. Secchi. Master in Architecture at IN/ARCH and Master Degree in Advanced Architecture at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia of the Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya with the direction of Vicente Guallart, Willy Müller and Marta Malé-Alemany.

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Professor at University Federico II NAPOLI for Computational Design.

Director o f Design and Research in Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory of Città della Scienza Napoi.

Professor and CEO  at MEDAARCH, Mediterranean Academy of Architecture;
Responsible Mediterranean FabLab
He has taught in several school Visiting Athens and Madrid.
Scientific director and professor of the summer school in digital fabrication and parame- tric design "Digitalmed" InarchCampania.
Director of INFOGRAM, Agency of infovisualizzazione.
Teaching assistant at the Second University of Napoli for the application of parametric design into the process of urban generation.
Self-employed in the office of Architecture and Engineering "picernocerasolab" of which he is CEO with Ing. Gianpiero Picerno Ceraso. Associated with the office wins in Italy and abroad several architecture competitions . His works are rewarded as innovative projects in the international arena up to be submitted for the SMART CITY WORLD CONGRESS EXPO 2012.

Expert in digital fabrication and computational design, holds numerous lectures to universities in Italy and abroad.
Expert in architecture communications and technology for rapid prototyping.
CEO of www.aramplus.com webzine since 2004 providing articles and making videos that explore the making of contemporary architecture.

Patents for "Communicative architectural facades." He has exhibited at the Biennale of Architecture of Seville. His works have been selected for Beyond Media - Vision. He was Professor of Interior Design Urban edited by the Campania Region. Playwright, television and radio, has written for national TV (Rai Tre, Italia 1). Awarded at the Giffoni Film Festival as a writer for the miles innovative TV format in 2005. Awarded for Project Workshop Slowloop project WinP_07 Lions and the city of Salerno. His works are included as a "case history" in the course "Innovative Marketing" at Bocconi, MIlan.

Founder of TA.R.I-Architects.

AGA-Studio. Design, architecture, interiors, retails, urban-design

CEO of Roland Baldi architects

The architectural studio Roland Baldi is active in architecture and urban planning, but also covers the fields of interior and landscape architecture as well as design. The projects - for the most part following successfully entered competitions - span over a large variety of different architecture manifestations including industrial, commercial and residential buildings, urban planning, infrastructure, buildings for educational purposes and a variety of other studies up to furniture design. The architect’s office is working under the motto „simple but different“ and focuses its attention on sustainability. Many of the implemented projects have been awarded with national and international architecture awards and presented in reputable exhibitions (i.a. Biennale of Architecture São Paulo 2012, Biennale of Architecture Venice 2006, 2014 e 2018, „New Architecture in South Tyrol 2006-2012“, solo exhibition in the Prisma Gallery in Bolzano 2012, alpitecture meets biennale 2014, Premio Architettura Città di Oderzo , South Tyrol Architecture Award 2013, best architects award 2014, Iconic Award 2014 e 2016).

From 2002 to 2009 I was Coordinator of cooperation projects in Burkina Faso. With my associate study (2011-2012) I worked in Gabon and Morocco.

In the last 5 years I have been the sole manager of an architectural and construction firm called BIOARCHIRIGOTTI.

I have had a lot of work in Africa where the political situation has become unsustainable today. I'm used to solving problems in difficult situations, I like traveling even if I have daughters.

I built a € 1,000,000 cinema without site mechanization and won an award for an important research center built on the ground. I have always used only what I found on the spot in an advanced technical manner. I paid attention to natural energy, using natural ventilation techniques combined with sophisticated systems controlled by very simple software.

I used Odroid cards in rural areas with Android as software, training young illiterates with great success. 

Gaetano De Francesco is the founder of DFR Architecture, a based in Rome design practice that investigates the contemporary condition of inhabited territory searching strategies and space solutions to make it livable, loveble, inclusive and resilient.

He is Phd in Architecture - Theories and Project at Department of Architecture and Project - Sapienza University of Rome, where make activities of research and teaching assistance and he is Authorized Rhinoceros Trainer and Adjunct Professor at Quasar Design University in Rome.