Massimiliano Fuksas (born January 9, 1944) is an important Italian international architect. He is head of Studio Fuksas, with offices in Rome, Paris and Shenzhen.
Fuksas was born in Rome in 1944; His father was a Jewish Lithuanian while his Catholic mother was the daughter of a French father and an Austrian mother.
In the early sixties he worked ...
Massimiliano Fuksas (born January 9, 1944) is an important Italian international architect. He is head of Studio Fuksas, with offices in Rome, Paris and Shenzhen.
Fuksas was born in Rome in 1944; His father was a Jewish Lithuanian while his Catholic mother was the daughter of a French father and an Austrian mother.
In the early sixties he worked for Giorgio De Chirico in Rome. After leaving Italy and worked for a period for Archigram in London and later for Henning Larsen and Jørn Utzon in Copenhagen. He graduated in architecture from La Sapienza University in 1969 in Rome, where he opened his first office in 1967, the GRANMA.
Since 1985, he has been working in partnership with his wife, Doriana Mandrelli. The following offices were opened in Paris (1989) and Vienna (1993), Frankfurt (2002) and Shenzhen, China (2008). [2] The new terminal 3 of Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport, which its company designed and built in 2008-2013 (with the support of the parametric design of the engineering firm Knippers Helbig) An exceptional example for the use of parametric design and production technologies in a large-scale building. Fuksas had three daughters of Doriana Fuksas: Elisa, Lavinia, Priscilla.
From 1994 to 1997, he was a member of the urban committees of Berlin and Salzburg. For many years he devoted particular attention to the study of urban problems and especially to the suburbs. From June 1997 he was advisor to the I.F.A. (French Institute of Architecture). Since January 2000, writes the architecture chronicle of the weekly L'Espresso, created by Bruno Zevi. In 2000, the director of the Venice Biennale - 7th International Architecture Exhibition - "ironically in the light of his practice of employing unpaid trainees for periods up to 2 years" Aesthetics, more ethics ".
He is a visiting professor at several universities, including the Special School of Architecture in Paris and Columbia University in New York.
Doriana O. Mandrelli was born in Rome, where she graduated in History of Modern and Contemporary Art at La Sapienza University in 1979. She graduated in ESA architecture in Paris, France. He teaches in the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Humanities and the Department of Industrial Design ITHACA of Rome "La Sapienza". In 2000, for the "VII International Exhibition of Architecture of Venice", "Less aesthetic, more ethical," supervised the four "special projects": Jean Prouvé, Jean Maneval, Pavilion of Peace and Architecture Spaces, and section to contemporary art. Since 1985, he has collaborated with Massimiliano Fuksas since 1997 and is in charge of the "Fuksas design."
Among the awards and honors:
2011 Carmen Design Handle Award for Manital, International Design Awards, Los Angeles, USA;
2002 awarded the honor of "Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic".