Foudend by Flavio Albanese in 1971, who was joined from his brother Franco in 1987, ASA Studio Albanese represents the ideal progression of the founder's professional career. It is widely recognised as one of the foremost architectural practices in Italy.

During the firm's first thirty years in business, it saw its assignments grow and multiply, and its most important work has appeared in the major specialist magazines.
Among the most significant interventions we mention the headquarter of Neores (2000), selected in 2003 in the shortlist for the Mies Van der Rohe Award, the headquarters of the new Vicenza Fair in 2008, the Verdura Golf & Spa Resort in Sciacca for Rocco Forte Hotels in 2009, the new Rinascente in Palermo (2010), the multi-tasking and cultural compound of Lindower22 in Berlin and the HTM Hybrid Tower in Venice, both inaugurated in 2016.
In 2018 it became the reference studio for the design of the new Thom Browne stores all over the world, while in 2019 it inaugurated the work of the new Masterplan Villas for the Rocco Forte Verdura in Sciacca.
In 2003 our Neores project was shortlisted for the Mies Van der Rohe Award.
In 2005 and 2007 we took part in the International Architecture Biennale in Venice.
In 2007 we were invited to participate in the concept scheme for the urban redevelopment of Beijing's city centre.
ASA Studio Albanese's president is Flavio Albanese.
Franco Albanese is the technical manager and CEO.
Piero Corradin is Head of Projects.
With a library containing more than 15,000 volumes and a project culture that traverses and mixes different disciplines, our fields of expertise are architecture, design and visual research.
Multitasking, multidisciplinary, multiscale.
This is ASA Studio Albanese.

people
30 people.
 3 branches. 

1 large design lab.
 15,000 volumes.

ASA studio albanese people in a nutshell: who we are and what we do. (Unfortunately there are too many books to list them all).

  • ASA studio albanese

    • Flavio Albanese
      founder & partner

      Flavio Albanese
      founder & partner

      Flavio Albanese (1951), is founder and president of ASA studio albanese. He is a self-educated designer, by combining his passion for contemporary art with the practical experience of an artisan-architect. Having come into contact with Carlo Scarpa, he learns from him to avoid an “a priori” approach to design, adapting on a case-by-case basis to the occasions, themes and contexts. He has held courses at the École Polytechinique Fédérale in Lausanne and at the Art Institute in Chicago (1980), at Yale University (1983), at the University of Architecture in Delft (2005), at the University of Florida (2006), at the Fundacion Proa de Buenos Aires (2008) and frequently at the most important Italian universities. He has also held two workshops at the international summer school of the Architecture School in Venice in 2009 and 2010. He was a member of the Confindustria Vicenza committee from 1998 to 2001, the Domus Academy Scientific Committee (2004-2005) and the MIart Committee of Honour (2009 and 2010), director of the Officina del Porto di Palermo (2006-2008), vice president of the Andrea Palladio Architecture Firms International Centre (2011-2015) and president of the Fondazione Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza (2010-2016). From 2007 to 2010 he was asked to head Domus, the prestigious international architecture, design and contemporary art magazine. Active since 1971, in 1987 he founds with his brother Franco ASA studio albanese. The studio's projects were published by the most most important architecture and design magazines: the Neores project was selected for the Mies van der Rohe Foundation European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (2003), and ASA studio albanese took part in Venice's Architecture Biennial in 2004 and 2006. Flavio is an avid reader and bibliophile (his library, which is open to the rest of the firm, contains more than 15.000 volumes) and he is a connoisseur and collector of contemporary art.

    • Franco Albanese
      partner, CEO & executive director

      Franco Albanese
      partner, CEO & executive director

      Franco Albanese (Vicenza, 1958) has worked in the world of architecture and design since 1976. He graduated from the Architecture School in Venice in 1986 and the year after he founded ASA studio albanese in Vicenza with his brother Flavio. Since then he has been the firm's CEO and Technical Manager, and this role has led him to playing his part in the creation, development and execution of the most important projects. As designer and operations manager he oversaw: the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Padua (1997); “Neores”, the production site and headquarters of Sinv Spa in Schio, Vicenza, (selected for the Mies van der Rohe Foundation European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture in 2003); the project for the Town Hall of the Municipality of Grumolo delle Abbadesse, Vicenza (1999); “Morimondo 17”, the industrial reconversion of the Sinv spa premises in Milan (2000); the headquarters of Margraf in Chiampo, in the province of Vicenza (2006). He also supervised the “Rocco Forte Verdura Resort” in Sciacca, in Sicily (2005), the expansion of Pantelleria Airport (2006), the new Rinascente in Palermo (2007), the reconversion project of Lindower 22 in Berlin (2011), the Hybrid Tower project in Mestre-Venice (2012), the Fope headquarter extension project in Vicenza (2016). In recent years, he has increasingly concentrated on reconverting urban industrial areas, which has become a key theme of ASA studio albanese's philosophy. In recent years, he has increasingly concentrated on reconverting urban industrial areas, which has become a key theme of ASA studio albanese's philosophy.

    • Piero Corradin
      partner, head of projects

      Piero Corradin
      partner, head of projects

      Piero Corradin has been a partner of the firm since 2020 and head of project since 2014. He graduated from the Iuav Architecture School in Venice in 2002 and in the same year began working as an architect in ASA studio albanese. Some of the most important projects Piero has worked on include the urban redevelopment of a quarter in Beijing to an OMA masterplan (2007), the new branch of Banca Popolare in Marostica (2006), the new headquarters of AFV Acciaierie Beltrame in Vicenza (2007), the bid for the new Exhibition Centre in Vicenza (2008), and the international bid “Recupero della cava di Mursia” on the island of Pantelleria (2010). In 2012 he took part in the Hybrid Tower project in Mestre (Venice), in 2016 in the Fope headquarter extension project (Vicenza) and in the Agrologic agro-food hub in Monselice. In 2008 he was tutor for PreVisioni, the international workshop on the future masterplan for Vicenza and at the 2009-2010 summer workshops of the Iuav Architecture School in Venice.

  • project management

    • Enzo Cascioli
      director of operations

      Enzo Cascioli
      director of operations

      Enzo Cascioli joined ASA studio albanese in 2022 as director of operations. Graduated in 2000 in geotechnical civil engineering with an thesis on the excavation of Bologna-Florence high-speed tunnels, he started working as a designer of underground projects with Rocksoil, then moved on to more infrastructural projects with Net Engineering and finally landed in the construction company ICM as technical office manager. For fifteen years he has been in charge of the design coordination of the most important construction sites, such as, among the others, the Vicenza Fair (of which ASA was the designer) and the CERN Visitor Center in Geneva (architectural project by RPBW). He also lived in Qatar for two years to follow the expansion of the military base and in Kenya where the smart city of Konza is under construction. On weekends, however, it is easier to meet him on the hills on a mountain bike or on his Eroica bike.

    • Giuseppe Dal Molin
      project manager

      Giuseppe Dal Molin
      project manager

      Giuseppe, who prefers to be called Pino, graduated from the Iuav Architecture School in Venice in 1993. A year later, together with Antonio Paolin and Giuseppe Pianezzola, he won a bid to design the new library in Marostica, a project that won the Town of Oderzo architecture award in 1999. He joined ASA studio albanese in 1994 and, notwithstanding a few hiccups, he has remained with us to this day. Pino deals with projects in the field of residential and hotel architecture in particular, and in interior design. For ASA studio albanese he personally worked on the Rocco Forte Verdura Resort in Sciacca, one of the firm's main projects. In 2006 he founded the Corte dei Roda design studio with Giuseppe Pianezzola and other co-workers. One of his favourite novels is "The Simulacra" by Philip K. Dick, and in another life the architect would have liked to have been a farmer.

    • Anna Tozzi
      project manager, interior designer

      Anna Tozzi
      project manager, interior designer

      Anna joined the firm in 1982 after graduating from art high school. She has made her own contribution to ASA studio albanese's growth and development, helping shape its distinctive style and sensibility. An interior designer with a particular flair for design and colour, Anna has always been interested in interiors, the spatial arrangement of items, and proper and elegant proportion between tones and volumes, working on projects from their concept to their design, coordination with suppliers and relations with clients. Today she is one of the pillars of ASA studio albanese, and the point of reference for the most important interior design choices. Over time her colour palette has concentrated on soft shades, and the colour she undoubtedly uses most is beige, in all its tones. Anna loves nature, animals, baggy, warm cardigans and monographs by Liagre, both for pleasure and necessity.

  • administrative management

    • Sonia Menin
      administrative manager

      Sonia Menin
      administrative manager

      Sonia joined ASA studio albanese in 2008, and her role is Administrative Manager. She received her high school diploma in accounting, specialising in foreign sales, and worked for the Vicenza branch of KWC ITALIA, dealing with administrative management and resources. Since joining ASA she has improved her skills in the field of finance and management control by taking several specialist courses, as well as by always keeping her self-taught skills up to date. She plays an active role in the firm's managerial and decision-making processes. She lives in Vicenza and spends her free time helping the family company with her husband, taking care of their two children, and practising ballroom dancing. Her role and her life experiences have made her strong, uncompromising, optimistic and stubborn.

    • Angela Barbato
      administrative officer

      Angela Barbato
      administrative officer

      Angela is part of ASA studio albanese's administrative team. She has a diploma in accounting and has built up a wealth of experience in administration, initially with an accounting firm, then later with two companies based in Vicenza. She joined ASA studio albanese in 2003 as personal assistant to Flavio Albanese, before moving into the administrative side of the business. Her dedication and professionalism support ASA studio albanese in everything to do with its organisation, and over the years she has seen many projects - and architects - take shape, with the opportunity to watch the firm grow and expand up close. She lives in Vicenza with her family. She loves painting, tennis and mountain walks.

    • Marianna Fabrello
      executive assistant

      Marianna Fabrello
      executive assistant

      Marianna joined Asa studio albanese in May 2020. After the University degree in Communication she worked as project manager for cultural events, such as Vicenza Jazz Festival and Spettacoli Classici, both hosted at Teatro Olimpico, the oldest surviving indoor theatre in the world. Now she is Flavio Albanese’s personal assistant and she actively takes part in the communication strategy and in the organizational activities of the studio. Still trying to cure her to-do list addiction, she loves the ability to sum up, the art of diplomacy, the acts of kindness, the imaginary etymologies and the untranslatable German words. She’s a great reader but no one knows the reason why it’s so tricky for her to remember the title of the book she’s reading at the moment.

  • team

    • Giovanni Agrò
      architect

      Giovanni Agrò
      architect

      Giovanni graduated in architecture from the University of Palermo in 2015 and then specialised as an expat in England, settling for a few years in Birmingham. In the city of the Peaky Blinders he worked first for UMAA Architecture and then for GNA Architects, delving into Revit and Enscape protocols. He returned to Italy and settled in Veneto, joining the Asa team in early 2024. Giovanni is passionate about landscape photography (no matter if urban or natural) and creative writing, but above all he is a blues guitarist currently looking for a band. He has confessed a desire to learn and wield the spiritual techniques of meditation and martial arts directly from Tibetan monastic communities, and on a desert island he would bring rope, tinder and a hunting knife with him.

    • Lisa Bisarello
      interior designer

      Lisa Bisarello
      interior designer

      Lisa joined Asa studio albanese in 2001 as personal assistant to Flavio Albanese, before becoming an interior designer and working on projects ranging from furniture design to patterns for fabrics, as well as on interior design projects. She received her High School Diploma in 1994 at the Canova Techical Institute for Surveyors in Vicenza, and before joining Asa studio albanese, she worked as an interior designer for a building firm from 1994 to 1996, and from 1998 to 2000 at the prestigious Fontana Arredamenti showroom as a sales assistant and interior designer. Personality-wise, Lisa is sensitive, meticulous, strong-willed and down-to-earth. She prefers still water, and her favourite proverb is "Where there's a will, there's a way".

    • Eleonora Bottin
      architect, interior designer

      Eleonora Bottin
      architect, interior designer

      Eleonora studied architecture at the Iuav in Venice in alternation with a year at the Facudade Tecnica de Lisboa, a trajectory which led her to graduation and then qualification to practice in 2006. The following year she joined Asa Studio Albanese, working between the offices of Milan and Vicenza. Within the studio she deals with projects of very different scales, from the masterplan to the most meticulous interior details, without forgetting the art of Photoshop. She left Asa in 2013 to join Asprostudio, with whom she collaborated until 2019. Since then he has dedicated herself to freelancing, focusing on reuse and renovation projects for private clients and perfecting her ancient passion for the interior design of all kinds of spaces: residential, commercial and office. However we all know that certain types of love make immense trips and then return, and this is how Eleonora rejoined Asa, carrying a baggage of hard and soft skills enriched by personal experiences. If she wasn't an architect, she would have driven bulldozers. On a desert island Eleonora would take with her old family linen sheets. Also, the island could be anywhere, given that one of her wishes is to live in front of the sea.

    • Alessandro Campesato
      architect

      Alessandro Campesato
      architect

      Alessandro studied at Iuav where he graduated in 2005 with a design thesis on interchange areas in the city of Split. He worked first in retail then as a freelancer. In 2008 he exhibited at the Fuori Salone d-Eva, the first outdoor wellness module, which would be published in numerous trade magazines. He later specialized on dry structures for modular housing. He has always dreamed of the construction site ever since, while still a child, his geometrician father forgot about him on the roof of a house under construction: while waiting, Alessandro started making paper hats for the masons. He came to Asa Studio Albanese in 2022 to develop complex projects and found himself cooking lunch for everyone. He loves hiking in the mountains, listening to Pink Floyd, and interpreting zoning regulations to his liking.

    • Nicola Caputo
      architect

      Nicola Caputo
      architect

      final and working stages of projects, coordinating operations on site for the professionals who physically create the project and working with clients on their choices to ensure that the firm's vision for the project is in keeping with the clients' wishes. For the firm Nicola has been involved in projects that include the Rocco Forte Verdura Resort in Sciacca, the Hybrid Tower in Mestre, the Villa Coeur Jolie in Cap d’Antibes, as well as many other projects. Before joining ASA studio albanese, he worked at Studio Altieri in Thiene, in the contract field in workplace interiors with Adotta, and again as designer with Studio Gabbiani & associati, tackling projects of different sizes, including hospitals, shopping malls, infrastructure and restoration work. He lives in Vicenza with his wife and son. He's a keen pre-master swimmer and when he isn't diving into the firm's design projects, he's diving into swimming pools. One of his favourite books is "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu. One thing he couldn't live without is a pair of well-crafted shoes.

    • Marco Dal Lago
      architect

      Marco Dal Lago
      architect

      Marco studied architecture at the Iuav in Venice, diverting to the FAUP in Porto for a year. His thesis on social housing in Portugal in the 1970s won the Vittorio and Marina Gregotti Prize in 2023. In the meantime, he did internships at the AMAA and Correia Ragazzi Arquitectos studios. In 2022 and 2023 he was a teaching assistant at Iuav before joining Asa. Marco is also involved in lighting & visual design, designing lighting installations for shows and DJ sets. Passionate about all things visual, he is an omnivorous being who feeds on typography, cinema, photography, web and design. As a child, he already knew he would be an architect, which is why he would draw the elevations of Palladian palaces in pencil. On a desert island he would take his small collection of architecture books and his Braun watch (of which he is very jealous). His favourite motto is: less is more!

    • Francesco Di Bella
      architect, interior designer

      Francesco Di Bella
      architect, interior designer

    • Francesco Marangoni
      3d models & digital printer supervisor

      Francesco Marangoni
      3d models & digital printer supervisor

      Francesco Marangoni (born in 1982) graduated in Political Economics from the University of Verona in 2007. After working as a projectionist and usher in the historic Odeon cinema in Vicenza, he happened upon ASA studio albanese in 2006. Here he has helped arrange and catalogue the more than 15,000 volumes contained in the firm's library. He then devoted himself to creating architectural models with a CAD/CAM pantograph and a 3D Zcorp 650 printer. Although he has founded and is involved in the production side of a small web radio station, he insists on listening to Radio3 in the models room on an analogue radio. In his free time, with variable results, he tries to indulge in his passion for reading, music and travel. From the studio library he'd borrow Codex Seraphinianus, while his favourite media is beer.

    • Riccardo Nicoletti
      architect

      Riccardo Nicoletti
      architect

      Riccardo graduated in architecture from the IUAV in Venice in 2002 and has worked with ASA studio albanese since 2008. He develops projects concerning production sites and offices, in particular in their final/working stages. He acts as a kind of "guarantor" for continuity between the design concept ideas and their final implementation. From 2002 to 2008 he worked at Morbiato, a construction company, dealing with architectural design, creating working plans, and assisting works managers on site. Riccardo is a practical man, with a passion for construction techniques, which he often experiments with, adopting the most innovative approaches. A proud amateur volleyball player, he says that if he hadn't become an architect he would have been a fireman.

    • Giuseppe Pianezzola
      architect

      Giuseppe Pianezzola
      architect

      Giuseppe graduated from the IUAV in 1993 and began working with ASA studio albanese in Vicenza straightaway. Together with some of his co-workers, he founded the Corte dei Roda design studio, while continuing to work as a designer with ASA studio albanese at the same time. His main field is interior design and the creative renovation of historic buildings, in particular residential buildings. He helped renovate the Palazzo Bonaguro in Vicenza, and worked on the concept and the working plans of Rocco Forte Verdura Resort in Sciacca, as well as on many other projects, following projects all the way through, from the initial design to their implementation and on-site management. He currently lives with his partner and their two children in San Donà di Piave near Venice, but when he is in town he likes going for walks in the beloved Piazzetta Palladio square. His favourite saying is "It's never too late"!

    • Charlotte Pigozzi
      architect

      Charlotte Pigozzi
      architect

      Charlotte is an architect, she is half from Reggio Emilia and half French. After attending the Politecnico di Milano, she graduated in 2017 following an internship at Paulo Moreira's atelier in Porto. She came to Asa Studio Albanese in Vicenza at the beginning of 2018, almost tiptoeing, to collaborate on the delivery of the villas of the Verdura resort in Sciacca. We've held onto her ever since. Cha, as everyone calls her, is multilingual, multitasking and is involved in some of the most important projects developed by the studio. She loves travelling and yoga. If she wasn't an architect she would have been a perfumer. She shares with her grandmother a special and secret recipe for cappelletti, which she will never reveal. Her favorite motto is: he who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

    • Giulio Pugno Vanoni
      architect

      Giulio Pugno Vanoni
      architect

      Giulio has been working with Asa Studio Albanese since 2000, when the Milan office was opened. He graduated in architecture in 1997 from the Milan Polytechnic and moved to Barcelona in 1998, working first at the Manuel de Solà Morales studio and then at Carlos Ferrater's studio. Back in Italy, he started his collaboration with Asa Studio Albanese in the Lambrate offices. In 2006 he founded with Caterina Battistini s27, his personal architecture agency, with which he has realised projects both in Italy and abroad, in parallel with his work with Asa. If he had not become an architect, Giulio would have liked to be a tightrope walker. He is a lover of the outdoors, the woods and the sea: on a desert island he would only take a mask and a fishing rifle with him. Nevertheless, Giulio is a metropolitan citizen and Milanese doc, he feels very comfortable in Milan and would not trade it for any other city in the world. This is precisely why he has become our point of reference in the Lombard capital.

    • Giovanni Rizzo
      architect

      Giovanni Rizzo
      architect

    • Giuseppe Santonocito
      communication

      Giuseppe Santonocito
      communication

      Giuseppe studied philosophy in Venice and Paris, completing his research doctorate in 2006. Since 2007 has managed ASA studio albanese's communications, dealing with new acquisitions for the Library and taking part in key concept and project philosophy planning. From 2007 to 2010 he was a regular contributor to Domus magazine, providing articles, research and reviews, as well as working as editor on the books section for several editions. Before joining ASA, he was assistant librarian at the Museum of Modern Art in Ca' Pesaro in Venice (from 2001 to 2005). As a freelance copywriter he has produced concepts and text for various projects, working with the digital storyteller Felice Limosani on “Il sole sui tetti” 2011 and 2012, with the Fondazione Gaetano Marzotto for the Progetto Marzotto 2013, and with Intertrade Group and Agenzia del Contemporaneo for Pitti Fragranze 2014. He was a tutor at the summer workshop of the Architecture School in Venice in 2009 and 2010. The often exceedingly loud music blaring through his AKG headphones includes Radiohead (and never Coldplay), he loves wide open spaces that aren't very city-like, such as Berlin, and he prefers red wine to white.

    • Marta Scaggiari
      architect

      Marta Scaggiari
      architect

      Marta graduated in architecture from Iuav in Venice in 2002. She immediately began working for Studio Aeditecne in Vicenza until 2006, when she left it to found her own studio, calling it Serie F4. In parallel, she inaugurated her collaboration with Asa Studio Albanese in 2010, specializing in renovation and refurbishment projects for existing buildings. Being from Asiaghese, Marta is an inveterate skier: her passion for mountains, snow, and the outdoors is a legacy passed down from her father, a ski instructor. That is why she would always prefer an Alpine peak to a deserted island. In any case, she would take with her mystery novels and all her affections, because she does not like to give up company at all. As a child, in addition to launching herself on snowy slopes, she always loved to draw: that childhood passion has turned into her profession today. On the other hand, the phrase that spurs her to do things is: want is power!

    • Alessandro Sparapan
      architect

      Alessandro Sparapan
      architect

      Alessandro has been working with the studio since 2022, he graduated in architecture from the Iuav in Venice in 2020 and studied for a year at the Belgrade Faculty of Architecture in 2019. Before arriving to Vicenza he worked in Venice for Zuanier Associati and previously in a project by EMGdotART in the Hubei Province in China, in collaboration with the Huazhong University of Science and the Southeast University of Nanjing. Alessandro is passionate about photography, brutalism (but only architectural) and Star Wars. On a desert island he would bring his ever-present pack of Fisherman's Friend candies, and that island would be in Venice.

    • Filippo Zampese
      architect visualizer

      Filippo Zampese
      architect visualizer

      Filippo was born in 1984 and became an architect when he graduated in Construction Architecture from the IUAV in 2010, specialising in Digital Architecture for his master's also in Venice in 2010. He joined ASA studio albanese in 2015 and he deals with 3D design and models, prototyping, rendering, and post-production of images and videos. Before arriving in Vicenza, he worked in Maastricht at SatijnPlus Architecten, in Milan for Cino Zucchi Architetti and in Rome for Fuksas Architecture. When he's not designing, Filippo is a musician and composer for the band A New Silent Corporation, with whom he has recorded two albums of post-rock instrumental music (Everything Is Exactly As It Seems, 2009; Odyssea, 2016). He plays electric guitar (for which he has a collection of pedals that he doesn't know how to use) and piano. He loves dogs and hates people who talk on trains, which perhaps explains why he would like to have been an astronaut.