Biographies

Guccione Margherita

The architect Margherita Guccione is director of MAXXI's Museum of Modern and Contemporary Architecture (MAXXI Architettura). From 2000 she supervised on behalf of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and...

Guidi, Guido

Through the eye of Guido Guidi (Cesena, 1941) the visible aspect of reality is revealed through partial clues of only apparently little significance. Among the masters of that renewal of the Italian...

Hadid, Zaha

Zaha Hadid was born in Bagdad and graduated in Mathematics from the American University in Beirut. She then moved to London, where she studied architecture at the Architectural Association and obtained her...

Hou, Hanru

Hou Hanru, born in 1963, Guangzhou, China, Critic and Curator based in Paris and in San Francisco. He currently lives and works in Rome. He received degrees from the Central Academy of Fine...

Iacchetti, Giulio

Giulio Iacchetti is a designer and university lecturer. In 2001, together with Matteo Ragni, he won the Compasso d’Oro for the multipurpose, biodegradable fork Moscardino, which that year...

IaN+

IaN+ (Carmelo Baglivo, Luca Galofaro and Stefania Manna) was formed in 1997 and is based around a nucleus of three people with different educational and professional backgrounds. The objective of this...

Insula architettura e ingegneria

Insula architettura e ingegneria was founded in 2002, by Eugenio Cipollone, Paolo Orsini and Roberto Lorenzotti. Insula works from the urban scale to public spaces, from the refurbishment of dismissed areas...

Ito, Toyo

Toyo Ito was born in Seoul in Korea and he graduated in architecture from the University of Tokyo in 1965. Following a few years apprenticeship within the Kikutake architectural studio, he opened his own,...

Jaar, Alfredo

Alfredo Jaar (Santiago de Chile, 1956) is an artist, architect and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Biennales of...