Domus is proud to present its first 100+ Best architecture firms, the result of a complex operation worthy of 90 years of architecture and design exploration. Our approach follows a new paradigm of associated life, where architecture is a central if not crucial point of discussion. But Best architecture firms 2019 is more. It is the latest phase in the metamorphosis of Domus, a magazine that is evolving into an ecosystem of contemporary knowledge and competencies, an open workshop where the critical review of architecture and design is expressed in diverse and complementary learning experiences – magazine, website, social media, focus topics, themed forums and data analysis – in a word, investigation. Our intent is to make Best architecture firms 2019 the first of a yearly outline of the state of the art of a field that has never been as important as now. The compilation aims to be a well-honed tool, indispensable to the different communities that have always formed the Domus mainstay: architecture and design professionals, public officials, elites and enthusiasts (not in order of importance). When we began conceptualising the guide, we were aware of the risks of the undertaking. We did not want a consumer product undistinguishable from the many offerings of the “culture industry”. In order to construct an authoritative source of reference, we adhered to the unique formula that has been serving us as an elevated standard. We asked the last ten editors-in- chief – plus the current one – to compile a selection of architecture firms known for cultural innovation. In exchange, we promised them anonymity. The result is a rich array. Of course some names are missing, mainly the above-mentioned Domus editors. That’s a question of style, an omission we wish to reward by stating here that they fully belong to our Best Architecture Firms. Otherwise, they would not have been chosen to conceptually lead Domus.

Walter Mariotti, editorial director Best architecture firms 02 19 Best architecture firms 02 19

Flavio Albanese Mario Bellini Stefano Boeri François Burkhardt Michele De Lucchi Nicola Di Battista

There are many, a great many, How did I go about choosing the world’s To observe the current panorama of Since the early 21st century, the Today architecture makes sense if it In January 1946, Ernesto Nathan architects, all very different and spread best architects? Number one, I tried to international architecture and attempt organisation of architecture firms has looks for the significance of buildings, Rogers became the editor-in-chief of far and wide. avoid any excess of patriotism, and so to build a list – exhaustive and inclusive been changing with the accelerating of living together, of attracting people Domus, appointed by the publisher They have the same immanent problem: I broadened my field of research well – of recent trends, to come up with pace of increasingly invasive digital and envisioning a better future. Gianni Mazzocchi to substitute Gio to worthily carry out with the job they are beyond Italy and without any difficulty a “Who’s who”, might seem to be technology, a fact that in itself is not All architecture that does not plan Ponti, the magazine’s founder. Rogers called upon to do. I was able to choose architects from something simple and almost banal. In negative for the profession’s evolution. something good for the future, that began his committal to his new post by It is a complex and articulated job, ten different countries. Number two, I reality, addressing such a complex and More worrisome is the priority attributed causes us distress when we see a crane taking a clear stand, adding the subtitle affected by social emergencies, matters tried to avoid my personal feelings and kaleidoscopic panorama makes it almost to the expansive dynamics of a liberal destroying more pieces of world, that La casa dell’uomo (“Man’s home”) of aesthetics and the need to find friendships getting in the way, and I also impossible to find univocal rules. We and globalised economy, which has is based solely on the interpretation to the journal’s cover. Unequivocally, compromises. Compromises that nobody tried not to be self-referential. have therefore come up with a system of entirely modified the relation between of building regulations and technical it stated the main interest of the wants to consider, the eye of the needle Three: I did a survey among the criteria, divergent and dissimilar so as to architecture and society, substituting our standards – in other words everything magazine’s content under his leadership of architectural practice. architects working in my firm (many of try and reconstruct fragments of a highly concern for social emancipation and the that takes architecture far from the (Domus issue 205, January 1946). And in this crowded world, someone them are either young or very young). complex and uneven landscape. decrease of inequality with our haste world – is of no use. This was early in the postwar period, finds a way to make things work, to Four: although I do consider archi- 1. Delocalisation/Diffusion: there are to reach a simpler aim: the increase of Among the architects I have selected and the country’s reconstruction was gracefully make a mark on this old designers – that is those who work on no longer nerve centres of creation and profit. there are practices that are not strictly of absolute primary concern. But for earth’s crust, already filled with built all scale projects – interesting, I focused action. This profound transformation has architectural ones, such as Assemble, Rogers, motivations were even stronger things. on personalities whose talent has been 2. Divergence: there are no longer had important consequences for the a collective with a multidisciplinary and more complex: there was a Small works of cosmetic surgery, tested on large scale architecture, fixed guidelines, in fact there is a wide priorities of decision making. Above approach that I chose because it views pressing need at the time to reconstruct accepting the inexorable passing believing that notoriety exclusively spectrum of forms of interventions, all, it has modified the ideals and goals architecture as a reference point for the very idea of habitation. of time, addressing the inevitable, based on (undoubtedly) beautiful methodologies, thoughts and forms of pursued by the profession. human beings to give value to their When I was appointed editor-in-chief unescapable final account. furniture and objects is not enough. Five: work. The role of the architect has been presence on Earth. of Domus in 2013, I too felt the urge The small workshops of young architects I searched through my visual memory 3. Disorder: studios are organised in a reduced almost solely to the Architecture is also experimentation: to add a subtitle. For me, it was La are still happy places of shared (paper records, web and journeys) to dispersive fashion, bringing together coordination of architectural planning it is the search for something more città dell’uomo (“Man’s city”). Although experiences, while the multinationals of retrieve images that over the last months different fields and inputs, expanding processes. To this loss of image and evolved, richer and more seductive conditions were entirely different from architecture crumble the dreams and have left a sign, a long-lasting sign, their practice. professional freedom we must add in terms of the environment in which the postwar circumstances, the need aspirations of those who are part of it: in the sense that in my opinion they 4. Local over global: the great return of the sense of suffocation produced we live. Technical possibilities and to redefine the purposes and the to-do they come across as alienated offices, have offered a significant contribution the vernacular and artisan, fruit of local by bureaucratic regulations and our the force of human imagination today list of architecture as a discipline was highly-specialised and without vision, to architecture’s time-honoured and thought (without however excluding dependency on increasingly managerial lead us to think up new spaces, new an undeniable priority. The decision devoured by unexpressed energies. extraordinary history. geographical displacement) clients determined to assert their forms, new settings: the work of artists to refer to “the city of people” brought Then when the scale is expanded and 5. Rebellion: social themes have economic interests. such as Olafur Eliasson or creators of us to concern ourselves not only with pieces of city are put forward in a single To these principles I want to add a brief regained strength, architecture is Today, the architect would need to installations like Studio Heatherwick, the physical city, both built and under moment, the risk of gigantism and a “message in the bottle”: crossed with politics, ecology, society free himself from these paralysing who give priority to the social impact of construction, which was definitely at design imposed without participation 1. Say no more than you say yes. and development. factors in order to participate actively their work, is also a contribution. This the centre of our interests, but also the becomes the price that all pay. 2. Do more competitions and less high 6. The rise of the small: the strongest in programmes devised to have a research, even it it does not directly tout ensemble of thoughts, actions and When instead, by lucky happenstance, society. revolutions occur without making positive effect on the urban, social and produce habitable spaces, enriches the professions that sustain it and make it through different processes and in 3. Remember that a great project also a noise. Small-scale practices are ecological fabric. There are two big imagination that enables us to look to possible. different ways, a practice gives rise to a comes from a great client. disrupting the landscape. challenges open to our trade. The first the future with more positive eyes, full In substance, it regarded everything dignified work of architecture, one has 4. Beware of those who are famous is preserving the environment, reducing of faith in the potential of humans to live that allows humankind to determine the feeling that it is has overcome the (only) on Instagram. energy consumption and raw materials and survive on the planet. what might be the buildings most challenge with the present and made an 5. Don’t settle for renderings, always go – in a word, the general diminishment suitable to its wish to inhabit the Earth encouraging mark for the future. on site, visit it from inside and outside, of consumption. The second is in a conscious and responsible way. These lucky architects, therefore, from far away and from very close, and guaranteeing constructions a longer Seeing the current conditions of the manage to smile and to feel less be with the people. life. Both challenges require taking part world, we believe that these issues are impotent in this complicated and 6. Embrace not only complicated but more forcefully in the battle against land what must be central to the architect’s fascinating universe that surrounds us. complex challenges. and building speculation. In order to work today – work that must once again 7. Avoid shortcuts. take on such ethical, political and social seek something that will give back aspects, seeing the urgency of the sense to our efforts. Materially, our matter, an increased compactness of the craft comes into its own with the built different professional orders is needed results, but it searches and finds its toward seeking a shared change of deeper, more necessary meaning only orientation with broad participation. No in thought that can sustain it, where longer is it wise to undertake individual “material world and spiritual world action within the single professions, are joined as one,” as Adriano Olivetti rather we must create a bona fide once said (Città dell’uomo, Edizione di political movement that is organised and Comunità, Milan 1960). developed on several levels. Best architecture firms 02 19 Best architecture firms 02 19 002 Portraits by Marco Camandona Marco by Portraits

Joseph Grima Winy Maas Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani Alessandro Mendini Deyan Sudjic

What is the definition of a successful Our societies are threatened by a form Drawing up a list of the 30 most Mariam Kamara When architecture critics start a architect? On the face of it, the answer of lethargy, dramatic climate change, important architectural practices of Beniamino Servino magazine, and even in this post print is obvious, steeped as we are in the cult decreasing resources, huge income our times could be considered an Aldo Cibic era, it still happens, they do it in the of the architect-hero with commissions inequality, extensive political/social exercise in reflecting on one’s personal Kuehn Malvezzi hope of turning the world upside down. on multiple continents, an office with disagreement, rapid population growth, predilections: who, today makes the TAMassociati I know I did, a very long time ago, when more employees than they can recall substantial food, water, energy and architecture that I like the best? It could Urban Think Tank a group of us started a magazine called ➼ the names of, and a status as household oxygen consumption, by globalisation, be considered an attempt to chronicle Juli Capella Blueprint. As is usually the case, this name nurtured by an almost daily and by menacing outbreaks of populism the latest news: who’s in the limelight, Gary Chang took the form of doing what we could to presence in the media. Upon reflection, and nationalism. who comes up when discussing big TYIN tegnestue Architects undermine the reputations of a previous it seems our assumptions around the If there is a threat (and there certainly is names in architecture? Finally, it could generation of designers, architects, notion success are almost entirely one), we need an agenda to defeat it and be taken as a kind of extract from the I have chosen individual architects or and so, by implication, of a previous quantitative, with little consideration for design disciplines must provide a range history of contemporary architecture. teams. They belong to very different generation of critics too. We were the possibility that any of these values of products that meet this agenda. From I am only interested in the third option, areas and geographies and operate championing a new group of names, might not be universal. Dutch Structuralism to contemporary but it is also the option that most dismays in profoundly different contexts. From drawn from our contemporaries, to help Given our assignment here was to come Landscape Urbanism, my selection me. All of history has been biased, being rooted in hyper-technological them in their struggle to supplant their up with a dozen or so names that to our includes a wide range of practices the subject of manipulation that may cultures, or in situations of emergency predecessors. minds represent a “radical cultural shift spanning object design, buildings, cities or may not be evident; but the history and difficulty, from luxury to emigrants, And of course, as they floated in architecture”, I would like to submit and entire territories because, after all, of architecture over the last hundred from minimalist to baroque language. apparently effortlessly to the top of the that there is no gesture more radical in everything is urbanism. years is distinguished in particular by its All these designers, in my opinion, have professional tree, so would we. Now architecture today than questioning the Some of the architects I chose were shameless partiality. One needs only to great intuitive, methodological and we wait with more or less resignation canon of success in our profession. I once eager young designers; some think of the exaggerated explanations design qualities, while not following the for another generation to dispatch us, would like, for a moment, to turn away others are eager designers today. But and resounding omissions of a Nikolaus formula of the Archistars. The result is in electronic haikus, 140 characters at from the obvious criteria of age and all of them have dealt – and keep on Pevsner or a Bruno Zevi. They stem not an eclectic panorama that mirrors on a time. Or, if we are quick enough, we generation, or of geographical location, dealing – with everyday architectures, only from particular geographical and the one hand the international nature contemplate knifing our own discoveries or even design philosophy, and for a with the cities we inhabit, with today cultural points of view, but also from the of their work, always responding to and finding a fresh generation to moment invite readers to focus on a and tomorrow’s stages of human reckless credit given to skilled self- the dictates of the Web and this kind champion, if necessary, repeating the group of individuals who – in different endeavours, routines and pleasures. representations of architects such as of hyper-knowledge, and on the other same trick once more in a few years’ ways – have defined through their I share their concerns about the Walter Gropius or Frank Lloyd Wright. hand their intention to remain connected time. Fashion cycles are the natural work new paradigms of success in homes we inhabit and their belief in Today the partiality of the historiography to their own places of origin, including means for one generation to be edged the practice of architecture. Some are the capability of public initiative to of contemporary architecture languages, techniques and artisan out of the way to make room for another, indeed household names, and some respond to collective aspirations. Their has reached atrocious levels. The symbols. My choice has been made from but they don’t always make for the most have large offices – these are not in designs generate experiences, provoke geography of architectural production a very large range of architects and this reliable of critical judgements. themselves antithetical to rethinking amazement and help improve our is now completely global and therefore makes me think that it may be possible I hope that by the time I got to Domus, success. But they have all found ways emotional state. immense, cultural directions are for social architecture to truly bloom in I had managed to acquire enough of to pursue an ideal that is not purely All of them have addressed the future dissolved in myriads of different the future. a perspective to understand that it quantitative, and that is something city in their work and many are currently positions and for the most part autistic, is much more interesting to explore the architecture of the 21st century dealing with the difficult task of merging abandoned to themselves by an the wider architectural landscape. desperately needs. ecology and design. My selection absence of criticism. And exhibitions Despite the pessimism of a world in includes authors trying to model urban of architecture, cleverly managed by which authoritarianism seems to have growth and to design hybrid natural communication professionals, are liberal values on the run, in which systems and urban developments – increasingly seductive and inconsistent. social media has turned into a digital authors who effectively understand A choice of contemporary architecture lynch mob spreading falsehoods about cities as habitats. practices that aspires, albeit with a everything from global warming to As the Earth enters the Anthropocene, playful wink, to a rigorous historical vaccination, this is a fascinating moment we are confronted with the issue of base, inevitably comes up against for architecture. There is a generation design of the planet as a whole. I hope this unsettling situation and mirrors that has tired of excessive interest in that all my colleagues will accompany its fragility. Symptoms of this are the form making, rediscovered the social me in the necessary undertaking of absences from our list and presences dimensions of architecture, and the bringing the global agenda back to the difficult to justify. Such inconsistencies continuing relevance of materiality. At forefront. are not oversights or errors: they are the same time, this is a moment when symptoms of the aporias of the history the nature of architectural practice of architecture today. It mortifies me has been transformed by scale: offices to think I am partly responsible for this of several hundred employees rarely profound inadequacy. I am consoled produced work of interest when I began by being so together with a group of my career. That is no longer the case. colleagues most of whom I am bound to Equally, the horizons of contemporary by esteem, in some cases by friendship architecture were once narrowly defined and all by a magazine that I still feel, 20 by geography, again, something that is years after directing, is a little bit mine. no longer the case. We are all the better for it. Best architecture firms 02 19 Best architecture firms 02 19

001 2Portzamparc 026 Cobe 043 Gabinete de Arquitectura 060 Maki and Associates 077 Richard Meier & Partners A. 094 Studio Fuksas Paris (page 8) Nordhavn, Denmark (page 33) Asunciòn, Paraguay (page 50) Tokyo (page 67) New York City (page 84) Rome (page 101) 002 Adamo-Faiden 027 Counterspace 044 Gehry Partners 061 MASS Design Group 078 RMA Architects 095 Studio Gang Buenos Aires (page 9) Johannesburg (page 34) Los Angeles (page 51) Boston (page 68) Mumbai, India (page 85) Chicago, USA (page 102) 003 Adjaye Associates 028 David Chipperfield Architects 045 Glenn Murcutt 062 Mateo Arquitectura 079 Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners 096 Studio Märkli London (page 10) London (page 35) Sidney (page 52) Barcelona (page 69) London (page 86) Zurich (page 103) 004 Agency-Agency 029 Diener & Diener Architekten 046 Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos 063 Max Dudler 080 SANAA 097 Studio Mumbai New York City (page 11) Basel, Switzerland (page 36) Lisbon (page 53) Berlin (page 70) Tokyo (page 87) Mumbai (page 104)

005 Aires Mateus e Associados 030 Diller Scofidio + Renfro 047 Grace 064 Meyer-Grohbrügge 081 Sangath-Va¯ stu Shilpa¯ Consultants 098 Studio Other Spaces Lisbon (page 12) New York City (page 37) Milan (page 54) Berlin (page 71) Ahmedabad, India (page 88) Berlin (page 105) 006 Al Borde 031 Dominique Perrault Architecture 048 Grafton Architects 065 Muoto 082 SelgasCano 099 Tadao Ando Architect & A. Quito, Ecuador (page 13) Paris (page 38) Dublin, Ireland (page 55) Paris (page 72) Madrid (page 89) Tokyo (page 106) 007 Alberto Campo Baeza 032 Edge Design Institute 049 Heatherwick Studio 066 Navarro Baldeweg Asociados 083 Sergison Bates Architects 100 TAMassociati Madrid (page 14) Hong Kong (page 39) London (page 56) Madrid (page 73) London (page 90) Venice, Italy (page 107) 008 All(zone) design 033 El Equipo Mazzanti 050 Herzog & de Meuron 067 NHDM Architecture + Urbanism 084 Shigeru Ban Architects 101 Tatiana Bilbao Estudio Bangkok (page 15) Bogotà (page 40) Basel, Switzerland (page 57) New York City (page 74) Tokyo (page 91) Mexico City (page 108) 009 Álvaro Siza 2 - arquitecto 034 Elemental 051 Junya.Ishigami+associates 068 Nlé 085 Smiljan Radic Clarke Architects 102 Terunobu Fujimori Porto (page 16) Providencia, Chile (page 41) Tokyo (page 58) Amsterdam (page 75) Santiago, Chile (page 92) Tokyo (page 109) 010 Amateur Architecture Studio 035 EM2N 052 Kengo Kuma and Associates 069 Ofis Arhitekti 086 Snøhetta 103 Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects Hangzhu, China (page 17) Zurich (page 42) Tokyo (page 59) Ljubljana (page 76) Olso, Norway (page 93) Tokyo (page 110) 011 Andrés Jaque Architects 036 Estudio Teddy Cruz + F. Forman 053 Kéré Architecture 070 OMA 087 SO-IL 104 Tyin tegnestue Architects New York City (page 18) San Diego, California (page 43) Berlin (page 60) Rotterdam (page 77) New York City (page 94) Trondheim, Norway (page 111) 012 Annette Gigon/Mike Guyer A. 037 FCJZ 054 Kollhoff Architekten 071 Patrick Berger Architecte 088 SOM 105 UNStudio Zurich (page 19) Beijing (page 44) Berlin (page 61) Paris (page 78) Chicago, USA (page 95) Amsterdam (page 112) 013 Assemble 038 Fernanda Canales Arquitectura 055 Kuehn Malvezzi Associates 072 Paulo Mendes da Rocha 089 Sou Fujimoto Architects 106 Urban-Think Tank London (page 20) Mexico City (page 45) Berlin (page 62) São Paolo (page 79) Tokyo (page 96) Zurich (page 113) 014 Atelier Bow-Wow 039 Forensic Architecture 056 Lacaton & Vassal Architectes 073 People’s Architecture Office 090 Souto de Moura Arquitectos 107 Vector Architects Tokyo (page 21) London (page 46) Paris (page 63) Beijing (page 80) Porto (page 97) Beijing (page 114) 015 Atelier Kempe Thill 040 Foster + Partners 057 Linghao Architects 074 Rafael Moneo Arquitecto 091 Spbr arquitetos 108 Vincent Van Duysen Architects Rotterdam, The Netherlands (page 22) London (page 47) Singapore (page 64) Madrid (page 81) São Paulo (page 98) Antwerp, Belgium (page 115) 016 Atelier Maso¯ mi­ 041 Francesca Torzo architetto 058 MAD Architects 075 RCR Arquitectes 092 Steven Holl Architects 109 Yasmeen Lari Niamey, Niger (page 23) Genoa, Italy (page 48) Beijing (page 65) Olot, Spain (page 82) New York City (page 99) Karachi, Pakistan (page 116) 017 Ateliers Jean Nouvel 042 Frida Escobedo 059 Maison Édouard François 076 Renzo Piano Building Workshop 093 Studio Anna Heringer 110 Zaha Hadid Architects Paris (page 24) Mexico City (page 49) Paris (page 66) Genoa, Italy (page 83) Laufen, Germany (page 100) London (page 117) 018 Atsushi Kitagawara Architects Tokyo (page 25) London 019 Beniamino Servino Caserta, Italy (page 26) 3 13 020 Bevk Perovic´ Arhitekti 24 Ljubljana, Slovenia (page 27) 28 39 104 021 BIG 40 86 Berlin Copenhagen, Denmark (page 28) 49 26 53 022 Canali Associati 79 21 54 93 Parma, Italy (page 29) 83 48 15 68 55 • 105 • Zurich 110 108 70 63 023 Capella Garcia Arquitectura 50 29 • 12 64 • 47 69 Barcelona (page 30) 25 20 35 98 95 88 61 22 Beijing Paris 76 41 100 96 024 Caruso St John Architects 90 37 1 9 23 75 94 106 London (page 31) • • 19 58 • New York City 17 5 62 Tokyo 46 73 025 Cibic Workshop 44 31 4 107 • 14 Milan (page 32) 36 56 11 Madrid 18 30 59 51 7 67 65 109 10 52 66 77 71 60 74 87 80 82 81 32 38 101 92 84 89 42 78 97 99 8 102 16 103

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Alberto Campo Baeza All(zone) design

Principal The Madrid-based Campo Baeza (Vallalolid, Spain 1946) took his degree Principal “All(zone) is a group of happy design professionals who joyfully Alberto Campo Baeza in architecture in 1971, in a historical context marked by the dictatorship Rachaporn Choochuey collaborate with specialists across the borders of their fields and Staff of Francisco Franco. Nonetheless, he was able to assert independence Staff country. We are fascinated by our ever-changing mega metropolis that Ignacio Aguirre, Alejandro Cervilla, in his designs from the beginning, aiming for simple, pure forms Ruchanan Patarapanich, gives a form to our everyday life. Our observations are always captured Miguel Quismondo, María Pérez that look to architecture’s history as a resource to adapt and renew. Asrin Sanguanwongwan, by contemporary vernacular design solutions,” says this Thai firm. de Camino, Tommaso Campiotti, The extremely clean lines of his projects make them severe in their Archaraporn Vachirasrisuntree, The contemporary architectural era is defined in many ways, mainly Alfonso Guajardo, Sara Fernández Thanaphat Sangkharom, volumetric proportions and in their alternation between solids and voids. “modern” coupled with the addition of the prefix “post-”, and lately Trucios, Elena Jiménez Rasarose Kitmungsa, His buildings’ closure to the outside goes hand in hand with the opening Wittida Payomyong, Aniroot Unjai, completed with the extra adjective “second”. The fact that All(zone) has Established in of walls to create patios and internal courts whose archetype belongs to Nawat Pranveerapaiboon, decided to include concepts such as joy, fascination and everyday life 1971 vernacular Mediterranean architecture. His early work such as the Town Pawat Chaijinda in its statement helps us see the emotional, informal eye with which the Offices Hall (1980) in Fene, Spain and the day-care centres in Onil and Aspe Established in new generation of architects tends to look at the world in an attempt Madrid, New York (1982) shows a partiality for Corbusian “white cathedrals”, where the 2009 to effectively change its paradigm, a task they undertake without matrix of the layout is visible in plan as well as in elevation. Later work turning to traditionally modernist solutions. At All(zone), the focus is on www.campobaeza.com Office such as the Gaspar house (1992) in Cádiz displays increasingly greater Bangkok materials and colours rather than shape – see the glass-tile facade of stylistic autonomy. Here, the square plan becomes a hortus conclusus the Maiiam Contemporary Art Museum in Chiang Mai, Thailand (2016) with blind external walls. Only the central portion of the patio is roofed, www.allzonedesignall.com – and on redesign projects rather than design from scratch. Rachaporn creating the house. All is white; all is symmetrical; and the sky forms a Choochuey, the founder of All(zone), trained at Columbia University perfect counterpart to the horizontal plane of stone paving. in New York and Tokyo University. She is developing a multifaceted Campo Baeza’s introverted courts are a recurrent theme in his houses as architecture, interior design, and visual art practice while teaching at well as his public buildings. As Alessandro Lanzetta writes in the book Chulalongkorn University. Her manifold approach is manifest all her Opaco Mediterraneo published in 2016 by Libria, “In his work, references works and well represented in Light House, an installation presented to the vernacular undergo a process of subtraction, in the mode of Mies’s at the Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2015. Intended for the often ‘less is more’, transforming it into a purist and abstract visual language, unfinished spaces of modern high-rise office buildings commonly found where the control of two absolute, eternal elements – light and gravity – in Asian megalopolises, the project is a temporary prototypical house dominates.” (plywood floor and metal grid walls lined with translucent synthetic Emanuele Piccardo fabric) for use as a living unit inside any abandoned, lifeless structure. Guido Musante

Castilla y León Regional Government, Zamora, Spain, 2012 (photo Javier Callejas) Contemporary Art Museum, Chiangmai, Thailand, 2016 (photo Soopakorn Srisakul/All(zone))

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supplement 100+ Best architecture firms editorial director Walter Mariotti art director Giuseppe Basile editorial manager of supplements Loredana Mascheroni collaborator Massimo Valz-Gris graphics Elisabetta Benaglio, Franco Miragliotta coordinator Miranda Giardino di Lollo contributors Francesca Acerboni, Alessandro Benetti, Giovanni Comoglio, Valentina Croci, Laura Drouet, Marianna Guernieri, Olivier Lacrouts, Salvator-John Liotta, Gabriella Lo Ricco, Fabienne Louyot, Manuel Orazi, Jessica Mairs, Guido Musante, Salvatore Peluso, Emanuele Piccardo, Federica Rasenti, Giulia Ricci translations Annabel Little, Miranda MacPhail, Karen Tomatis, Wendy Wheatley — published with Domus 1033 March 2019 Editoriale Domus S.p.A. Via Gianni Mazzocchi 1/3 20089 Rozzano (Milano) T +39 02 824 721 F +39 02 575 001 32 [email protected] publisher and managing editor Maria Giovanna Mazzocchi Bordone prepress Editoriale Domus printers ERRE Stampa, Orio al Serio (BG) Registrazione del Tribunale di Milano n. 125 del 14/8/1948. È vietata la riproduzione totale o parziale del contenuto della rivista senza l’autorizzazione dell’Editore. © 2019 Editoriale Domus S.p.A. Rozzano (MI) Italia