Just some days ago the Italian Architects network announced the callsfor the awardsto theItalian architectsof 2014 and in the jury we find also Francesco Fresa, partner of Piuarch, the office winner of 2013 edition.
Chosen from the 70 nominations made by the members of the 105 provincial architects boards, Piuarch- composed by Francesco Fresa, Germán Fuenmayor, Gino Garbellini and Monica Tricario - was considered emblematic example of how you can achieve a high architectural and urban quality from the complexity of the forces that act on the transformation of the environment today, expressing a significant abilityto actually dialogue with different cultures, expectations, financial and technical resources.
Some project built by Piuarch, such as Congress Center in Riva del Garda, Bentini Headquarters in Faenza, Four Courts in San Pietroburgo, the subsidized housing complexin Sesto San Giovanni, Offices of Porta Nuovain Milan,show, in fact, as youcan pursuenew forms ofurbanityand newareas of life andworkinprofessional conditionsinprofoundand continuous change. (Press Release CNA)
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Seventeen years of activity, 10 works realizedin Italy, 40 stores around the world, a turnover around 2 millions of euros. Four partners and six associates who in January will become 11, around 35 people. These are the numbers that describe in figures the work of the Milan office Piuarch, led by fifty year-old Fresa, Fuenmayor, Garbellini and Tricario.
(Paola Pierotti on Edilizia e Territorio)
The studioopened in 1996, has developed numerousprojectsat different scalesandfor different typesof work bothinItalyand abroad.Here is theirphilosophy: In our project approach, architecture is always related with the context, the individual building is always seen first as a part of the whole. Every building must dialog with the history, features and needs of a particular place and time. Meanwhile our architecture is modern, it uses a contemporarylanguage, but always takes its cue from the specific character of the site. We design buildings with a strong identity, which enrich the urban fabricin which it is included, at the same time respecting it.
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TheItalianArchitectPrize, 2013, as well as thatfortheyoungtalentof Italian architecture 2013, wonby FabrizioBarozzi, have been bannedfor the Feastof the Architect2013, whichtheCNAPPCestablishedin the occasionof theninetiethanniversaryof the foundation ofarchitects board, the June 24thof 2013, withthe aim of identifyingannuallya day for celebrating, atnational and local level, the architecture and its protagonistsas central elementsof a processcapable of enhancingthe quality of theproject in itshigher civil and cultural aspects.
On the June 24thof 1923in factwasapprovedthe law on"Protection of titleand professionof architects” recognitionfundamentalto ensureto Italian citizens thatarchitecture would carry on bypeople whohadthe culture andtechnical expertise and whorespectedethical principlesin dealingwith the companyandwith the customer.