Overview
Architecture through the voices of clients.
Every piece of architecture condenses multiple desires, becoming a living organism that evolves over time and shapes our lives, our view of the world, and the experiences of the communities that encounter, inhabit, and reinterpret it. For these reasons, the exhibition on Archea’s work is conceived through the words, perspectives, and experiences of clients involved in the studio’s most significant projects of the past twenty years, expressing the sense of continuity and completeness that defines a meaningful contemporary architecture.
Travelling and engaging in dialogue with such diverse and distinctive clients across Asia and eurospe offers the public a fresh, at times disorienting, perspective on Archea’s work. Above all, it enables a clearer understanding of the levels of complexity that contemporary architectural practice must confront when operating globally, across different scales, images, and places. The clients’ words resonate with the world of the Archea studio, creating a system of echoes and affinities. They reflect its working methodology, its key figures, its obsessions, and its commitment to a distinct idea of “Italian” design. These elements have become defining markers of the studio’s maturity. Founded in Florence by Laura Andreini, Marco Casamonti, and Giovanni Polazzi, and joined by Silvia Fabi in 2001 with the establishment of Archea Associati, Archea is today one of the Italian studios with the widest international presence.
Every piece of architecture condenses multiple desires, becoming a living organism that evolves over time and shapes our lives, our view of the world, and the experiences of the communities that encounter, inhabit, and reinterpret it. For these reasons, the exhibition on Archea’s work is conceived through the words, perspectives, and experiences of clients involved in the studio’s most significant projects of the past twenty years, expressing the sense of continuity and completeness that defines a meaningful contemporary architecture.
Travelling and engaging in dialogue with such diverse and distinctive clients across Asia and eurospe offers the public a fresh, at times disorienting, perspective on Archea’s work. Above all, it enables a clearer understanding of the levels of complexity that contemporary architectural practice must confront when operating globally, across different scales, images, and places. The clients’ words resonate with the world of the Archea studio, creating a system of echoes and affinities. They reflect its working methodology, its key figures, its obsessions, and its commitment to a distinct idea of “Italian” design. These elements have become defining markers of the studio’s maturity. Founded in Florence by Laura Andreini, Marco Casamonti, and Giovanni Polazzi, and joined by Silvia Fabi in 2001 with the establishment of Archea Associati, Archea is today one of the Italian studios with the widest international presence.
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