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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) 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 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.

Eleonora Bottin
architect, interior designer

Eleonora ha studiato architettura allo Iuav di Venezia, intervallando con un anno alla Facudade Tecnica de Lisboa la traiettoria che l’ha portata alla laurea e poi all’abilitazione alla professione nel 2006. L’anno successivo entra in Asa Studio Albanese dividendosi tra la sede milanese e quella vicentina: per lo studio si misura con progetti di scala molto diversa, dal masterplan ai più minuziosi dettagli di interior, senza dimenticare l’arte del photoshop. Lascia Asa nel 2013 per raggiungere Asprostudio, con il quale collabora fino al 2019. Da allora si dedica alla libera professione, concentrandosi su progetti di riuso e ristrutturazione per clienti privati, perfezionando la sua antica passione per l'interior design di tutti i tipi di spazio: residenziali, commerciali e direzionali. Ma si sa che certi amori fanno giri immensi e poi ritornano, ed è così che Eleonora è rientrata di nuovo in Asa, portando in dote un bagaglio di hard e soft skills arricchito delle sue personali esperienze. Se non fosse diventata architetta, le sarebbe piaciuto guidare la ruspa. In un’isola deserta Eleonora porterebbe con sé le vecchie lenzuola di famiglia in lino. L’isola poi, potrebbe trovarsi ovunque, visto che uno dei suoi desideri è quello di abitare di fronte al mare.

Giuseppe Dal Molin
project manager

Giuseppe, che preferisce essere chiamato Pino, si è laureato allo IUAV di Venezia nel 1993. L’anno successivo ha vinto insieme ad Antonio Paolin e Giuseppe Pianezzola il concorso per la realizzazione della nuova biblioteca di Marostica, progetto insignito del premio di architettura Città di Oderzo 1999. Ha iniziato la sua collaborazione con ASA studio albanese nel 1994 e, con alterne vicende, l’ha protratta fino ad oggi. Pino si occupa soprattutto di progetti nel campo dell’architettura residenziale e alberghiera, e nell’interior design. Per ASA studio albanese ha seguito personalmente il Rocco Forte Verdura Resort di Sciacca, uno dei main projects dello studio. Nel 2006 ha fondato assieme a Giuseppe Pianezzola e altri colleghi lo studio di progettazione Corte dei Roda. Tra i suoi libri preferiti c’è “I simulacri” di Philip K. Dick e in alternativa all’architetto gli sarebbe piaciuto fare il contadino.

Francesco Di Bella
architect, interior designer