ONGOING: UNDERGROUND GARAGE VICENZA

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 (Vicenza, 1958) lavora nel mondo dell’architettura e del design dal 1976. Laureato nel 1986 all’Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, l’anno seguente ha fondato a Vicenza ASA studio albanese, insieme al fratello Flavio. Da allora Franco è amministratore delegato e direttore tecnico dello studio, e in questo ruolo ha partecipato alla genesi, allo sviluppo e all’esecuzione dei progetti più importanti. Come progettista e direttore dei lavori ha seguito la sede di Medicina Veterinaria dell’Università di Padova (1997); “Neores”, l’insediamento produttivo e direzionale di Sinv Spa a Schio, Vicenza, (selezionato nel 2003 per l’European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture della Mies van der Rohe Foundation); il progetto per il Municipio del Comune di Grumolo delle Abbadesse, Vicenza (1999); “Morimondo 17”, la riconversione industriale della sede Sinv spa a Milano (2000); l’headquarter di Margraf a Chiampo (Vicenza, 2006). Ha curato inoltre la progettazione del “Rocco Forte Verdura Resort” a Sciacca, in Sicilia (2005), dell’ampliamento dell’aeroporto di Pantelleria (2006), della nuova Rinascente di Palermo (2007), il progetto di riconversione Lindower 22 a Berlino (2011), la HTM Hybrid Tower di Mestre (2012), l’ampliamento della sede Fope a Vicenza (2016). Negli ultimi anni ha focalizzato l’attenzione sugli interventi di riconversione degli spazi industriali urbani, diventato un tema chiave nella filosofia di ASA studio albanese.

Giovanni Rizzo
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.

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.