In 1957, the architect Tommaso Valle founded the Studio Valle Progettazioni. In 1960, he established, together with his engineer brother Gilberto, a professional association in which they have continued the profession handed down to them by their father, who was extremely active in the decades prior to WWII. The office has carried out an intense [...]
Michele Valori was an architect who graduated in Rome in 1948. He was born in Bologna and was one of the key figures of the social housing experiments carried out under the aegis of the Unrra-Casas and INA-casa agencies during the years of the post-WWII reconstruction. These programmes brought him to work alongside architects such [...]
Paola Viganò is an architect and urban planner and Associate Professor with the IUAV in Venice.
A Visiting Professor at numerous European schools of architecture, including KU Leuven (Belgium), EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland) and Aarhus (Denmark), she also participates in the Doctorate in Urban Planning programme at the IUAV and the EMU – European Masters of Urbanism [...]
Luca Vitone (Genova, 1964) lives and works in Milan. His research investigates the notion of territory as social and physical space. His work has been shown in public and private spaces in Italy and abroad, including: PS1, New York, (2000); GNAM, Roma (2005); PAC, Milano (2006), Casino Luxemburg, Lussemburgo (2006); MART, Rovereto (2007); Museion, Bolzano [...]
Charles Waldheim is the principal of Urban Agency, a multidisciplinary consultancy firm for contemporary design and urbanism.
The Director of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, he is also a professor of Landscape Architecture with the same university. His research focuses on the relationship between the contemporary landscape and urbanism. [...]
WEST 8 | URBAN DESIGN & LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Adriaan Geuze | Edzo Bindels | Martin Biewenga | Jerry van Eyck | Theo Reesink
West 8 is an award-winning international office for urban design and landscape architecture founded in 1987. Over the last 20 years West 8 has established itself as a leading practice with an international team [...]
Gilberto Zorio was born in 1944 at Andorno Micca, near Biella. The artist’s research focuses on metamorphosis and alchemistry, exploring natural phenomena of transformation such as evaporation and oxidation. The idea of energy has been a constant theme running through his work; the attention devoted to electricity has led him to incorporate light bulbs, incandescence [...]