Curriculum Vitae
Arturo Vittori Via del Piano 20 01020 Bomarzo (VT), Italy
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Date of Birth: 01.10.1971 Place of Origin: Viterbo Nationality: Italian
Education: 1998 | Graduated as Arch. from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Florence, Italy | Thesis: International Space Station - Travelling Network | 110/110 summa cum laude | Awarded with the ‘Giovanni Neri Serneri’ Prize 1997 | Master, Architectural Diagnosis | CESVIP, Modena, Italy 1992 | Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany, 1992-93 | Erasmus 1989 | High School Diploma, Viterbo, Italy
Principal Project References: 2015 | ‘WarkaWater’ Humanitarian Project, Dorze, Ethiopia 2014 | ‘TraningLab’, Robotic Simulation Traning Lab, with Dr. P. Cristoforo Giulianotti, UIC Chicago 2013 | ‘Emilia3’, Solar Car, World Solar Challenge, Grid position 12, Australia 2013 | ‘Hospital of the Future’, with Dr. P. Cristoforo Giulianotti, UIC Chicago 2012 | ‘AtlasCoelestisZeroG’, Kinematic Scuplture, NASA & ESA, International Space Station 2010 | ‘LaFenice’, public Art Installation, City of Messina, Italy 2010 | ‘MoonRolly’, study for a manned Lunar Rover, European Space Agency ESA & Thales Alenia 2009 | ‘Fiore del Cielo’, La Macchina di Santa Rosa, public Art Installation, City of Viterbo, Italy 2009 | ‘MercuryHouseOne’, Mobile Pavillion, Biennale in Venice 2008 | ‘ExoDome’, simulation laboratory for European Space Agency ESA & 4Con Space Ltd., Paris 2008 | ‘MoonBaseTwo’, Study for future Moon Laboratory with Thales Aliena, exibited at Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago 2007 | First and Business Class for Asiana Airlines, Colour & Trim 2006 | ‘MarsCruiserOne’, study for a manned Mars Rover with engineers from Astrium/EADS 2005 | ‘DesertSeal’, study for European Space Agency ESA Technology Transfer Programme permanent collection Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, New York
ARCHITECTURE AND VISION Via del Piano 20, I-01020 Bomarzo (VT), Italy [email protected] 01 - 07 Other Activities: 2017 | Culture a Porter, Italy | CEO and Founder | 12 months 2016 | Warka Water Inc | Petaluma, CA, USA | CEO and Founder | 20 months 2011 | MAG Mecaer Aviation Group SpA, Rome, IT | Art Director | 13 months 2006 | FrancisDesign, London, UK | Art Director | 6 months 2004 | Future Systems, London, UK | Senior Architect | 13 months 2003 | Architecture and Vision | London, UK | Co-Founder and Director | 15 years 2002 | Airbus, Toulouse, France | Manager of Cabin Design | 24 months 2001 | Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Paris, France | Collaboration | 18 months 2000 | Calatrava Valls, Paris, France | Collaboration | 12 months 1998 | Duepiù France, Paris, France | Design Manager | 16 months 1997 | Jourda Architects, Paris, France | Collaboration | 8 months
Awards: 2018 | Werkbund Label of the Year 2018 | Winner 2018 | Bio-based Material of the Year 2018 | Winner 2017 | Zumtobel Group Award | Winner 2017 | Beazley Designs of the Year | Finalist 2016 | The World Design Impact Prize | Winner 2015 | The National Geographic Expeditions Council Grant | Winner 2015 | Fuller Challenge | Semi-Finalists 2009 | Imagina | Nomination 2009 | VisionWorks Award | Nomination
Teaching: 2018 | A/D/O, New York, USA, 07.2018 | Workshop 2016 | Colorado College, USA, 01.2016 | Workshop 2015 | IIT - Indian Institute of Technology of Bombay, India, 12.2015 | Workshop 2015 | EIABC - Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Adis Ababa, Ethiopia, 02.2015 | Workshop 2014 | Faculty of Arts and Design, University Iuav of San Marino, San Marino, 07.2014 | Workshop 2014 | Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Beirut, Lebanon, 05.2014 | Workshop 2012 | The Amercian University In Cairo AUC, Cairo, Egypt, 22.11.2012 | Workshop 2012 | Polis University, Tirana, Albania, 24.09.2012 | Workshop 2012 | Faculty of Arts and Design, University Iuav of Venice, Italy, 06.2012 | Workshop 2012 | EIABC - Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Adis Ababa, Ethiopia, 05.2012 | Workshop 2012 | College of Architecture of the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA, 04.2010 | Workshop
ARCHITECTURE AND VISION Via del Piano 20, I-01020 Bomarzo (VT), Italy [email protected] 02 - 07 2010 | Faculty of Arts and Design, University Iuav of Venice, Italy, 10-12.2010 | Graduate course in Product Design 2010 | College of Architecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, 08-12.2010 | Catalyst Workshop 2009 | Faculty of Arts & Design, University Iuav of Venice, Italy, 10-12.2009 | Graduate course in Product Design 2009 | College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA, 15-01.2009 | Advanced Studio 2008 | Faculty of Arts and Design, University Iuav of Venice, Italy, 10-12.2008 | Graduate course in Product Design 2008 | Space Camp, Fakultät für Architektur, TU, Munich, Germany, 16.04-08.07.2008 | Visiting expert 2008 | Faculty of Architecture, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy, 05.03-11.06.2008 | Undergraduate course in Industrial Design 2008 | Project Living Bridge, BFH Burgdorf, Switzerland, 18.02-03.06.2008 | Visiting expert 2007 | IT Revolution in Architecture. The Changing Notion of Space and Time in Contemporary Design | SicilyLab, Gioiosa Marea, Italy, 09.2007 | Workshop
Lectures: 2018 | ‘Warka Water’, Kara, University of Kara, Togo | 14.06.2018 2018 | ‘Water fron the Air’, New York, USA | 06.06.2018 2017 | ‘Warka Water’, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 16.10.2017 2017 | ‘Warka Water’, Port Au Prince, Haiti | 20.01.2017 2016 | ‘Warka Water’, London, School of Architecture, University Of East London (UEL) | 27.11.2016 2016 | ‘Warka Water’, La Guajira, Colombia | 09.11.2016 2016 | ‘Warka Water’, Palermo, Italy, Universita Degli Studi Di Palermo | 24.10.2016 2016 | ‘Warka Water’, Cascina, Italy, Rotary Club | 06.11.2016 2016 | ‘Warka Water’, Universidad Del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia | 22.02.2016 2016 | ‘Warka Water’, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia | 17.02.2016 2016 | ‘Warka Water’, ‘Hydrologic’, Colorado Springs, USA | 21.01.2016 2015 | ‘Warka Water’, Bergamo Festival, Bergamo, Italy | 09.04.2015 2015 | ‘Warka Water’, FloraCult, Rome, Italy | 24.04.2015 2015 | ‘Warka Water’, Italian Cultural Institute, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia | 04.02.2015 2014 | ‘From Pyramids to Spacecraft’, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Beirut, Lebanon | 05.2014 2013 | ‘From Pyramids to Spacecraft’, Children Museum Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt | 21.02.2013 2012 | ‘From Pyramids to Spacecraft’, The New Library of Alexandria, Egypt | 29.11.2012 2012 | ‘Something New under the Sun’, American University Cairo, Egypt | 19.11.2012 2012 | Exhibit Design, Faculty of Arts and Design, University Iuav of Venice, Italy | 18.01.2012 2011 | Ricerca e Design, Faculty of Arts and Design, University Iuav of Venice, Italy | 13.12.2011
ARCHITECTURE AND VISION Via del Piano 20, I-01020 Bomarzo (VT), Italy [email protected] 03 - 07 2011 | ‘Genius Loci of the Space Age’, Columbia College, Chicago USA | 08.11.2011 2011 | ‘Cutting Borders’, Columbia College, Chicago, USA | 02.11.2011 2011 | ‘Advanced Research of Green Innovation’, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio 2011 | University, Fujisawa-City, Kanagawa, Japan | 19.10.2011 2011 | Digital Craftmanship, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Bejing, China | 120.05.2011 2011 | ‘From Pyramids to Spacecraft’, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China | 14.05.2011 2011 | ‘From Pyramids to Spacecraft, XinDanWei, Shanghai, China | 14.05.2011 2011 | ‘From Pyramids to Spacecraft’, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Bejing, China | 24.03.2011 2011 | ‘From Pyramids to Spacecraft’, Peking University, Bejing, China | 24.03.2011 2011 | ‘From Pyramids to Spacecraft’, Beihang University, Bejing, China | 23.03.2011 2011 | ‘LaFenice’, Pala Cultura, Messina, Italy | 07.03.2011 2011 | ‘dalle Piramidi ai Veicoli Spaziali’, Circolo del Tennis e della Vela, Messina, Italy | 23.02.2011 2011 | ‘FioredelCielo’, Lions Club, Viterbo, Italy | 28.01.2011 2010 | ‘Architekten im Gespräch’, Schweizer Haus München, Germany | 7.11.2010 2010 | ‘Hospital - The Future’, UIC, Department of Surgery, Chicago, USA | 26.10.2010 2010 | ‘Something New under the Sun’, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, USA | 25.10.2010 2010 | ‘Something New under the Sun’, Google Inc, Chicago, USA | 18.10.2010 2010 | ‘Something New under the Sun’, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan | 01.07.2010 2010 | ‘Something New under the Sun’, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan | 30.06.2010 2010 | ‘Something New under the Sun’, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan | 29.06.2010 2010 | ‘Something New under the Sun’, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan | 28.06.2010 2010 | ‘From Pyramids to Spacecraft’’, Keio University, Fujisawa-city, Japan | 23.06.2010 2010 | ‘From Pyramids to Spacecraft’, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan | 22.06.2010 2010 | ‘From Pyramids to Spacecraft’, Peking University, Beijing, China | 18.06.2010 2010 | ‘From Pyramids to Spacecraft’, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China | 18.06.2010 2010 | ‘From Pyramids to Spacecraft’, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy | 09.06.2010 2010 | ‘Digital Craftsmanship’, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark | 30.04.2010 2010 | ‘From Pyramids to Spacecraft’, The Technical University of Denmark DTU in Lyngby at the Architectural Engineering Department | 29.04.2010 2010 | ‘Architecture and VIsion’, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA | 18.03.2010 2010 | ‘Digital Craftsmanship’, Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Chicago, USA | 17.03.2010 2010 | Practice Economies’, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, USA | 16.03.2010 2010 | ‘From Pyramids to Spacecraft’, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA | 08.03.2010 2010 |‘Design e Robotica’, Technotown – Roma, Italy | 05.14.2010 2010 | Il Seme di Fioredelcielo, Centro Congressi Domus – La Quercia’, Italy | 05.02.2010 2010 | ‘Architecture and VIsion’, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA | 18.03.2010 2010 | ‘Digital Craftsmanship’, Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Chicago, USA | 17.03.2010 2010 | ‘Practice Economies’, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, USA | 16.03.2010
ARCHITECTURE AND VISION Via del Piano 20, I-01020 Bomarzo (VT), Italy [email protected] 04 - 07 2010 | ‘From Pyramids to Spacecraft’, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA | 08.03.2010 2009 | ‘From Pyramids to Spacecraft’, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea | 23.10.2009 2009 | ‘From Pyramids to Spacecraft’, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea | 21.10.2009 2009 | ‘From Pyramids to Spacecraft’, Myonggi University, Seoul, Korea | 20.10.2009 2009 | ‘From Pyramids to Spacecraft’, Korea Foundation Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea | 16.10.2009 2008 | ‘Architecture and Vision’, Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Chicago, USA | 16.05.2009 2007 | ‘The Beauty of the Extreme’, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA | 13.11.2007 2006 | ‘The Beauty of the Extreme’, University of La Sapienza, School for Aerospace Engineering, Rome, Italy | 19.03.2006
Conferences: 2018 | ‘Technologies for a Brighter World’, CSEM, Bern, Switzerland | 04.10.2018 2018 | ‘Warka Water’, United Nation Headquarter, New York, USA | 08.06.2018 2018 | 3 Biolaboratorio | INBAR Ist. Naz. di Bioarchitettura | San Vito lo Capo, Italy | 25.05.2018 2018 | Bio-based Material of the Year 2018 | Colone, Germany | 15.05.2018 2018 | The IEEE Internet of Things (IoT) | Monteriggioni, Italy | 09.05.2018 2017 | Innovator of the Real World | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 17.10.2017 2017 | ‘Warka Water’, TedxKufstein, Kufstein, Austria | 19.06.2017 2017 | What Design Can Do, Amsterdam, Netherland | 23.05.2017 2017 | Brown University In Providence, Rhode Island, US | 3 > 4.03.2017 2016 | Doosan Bobcat 2016 Global Conference, Prague, Czech Republic | 19.05.2016 2016 | Science Festival Edinburgh 2016, Edinburgh, UK | 07.04.2016 2016 | World Design Capital 2016, Taipei, Taiwan | 18.03.2016 2015 | 3 Biolaboratorio | INBAR Istituto Nazionale di Bioarchitettura, Alcamo, Italy | 19.12.2015 2015 | Cumulus Mumbai 2015 | Indian Institute of Technology of Bombay, India | 04.12.2015 2015 | Warka Water, Africa&Design, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy | 29.10.2015 2015 | All or Nothing, TedxBangalore, Convention Centre, Bangalore, India | 04.10.2015 2015 | Genious Loci, 16th Fórum Internacional de Software Livre, Porto Alegre, Brasil | 09.07.2015 2015 | Impossible, TedxCibeles, Teatro Fernán Gómez, Madrid, Spain | 04.07.2015 2015 | Design for the Future, Superyacht Design Week, London, UK | 25.06.2015 2015 | Warka Water, Expo Milan 2015, Milan, Italy | 07.05.2015 2014 | Warka Water, Maker Faire Rome, Italy | 02.10.2014 2014 | VittoriLab, Arduino Day Rome, Italy | 28.03.2014 2013 | The Robotic Challenge, Italian Cultural Center Chicago, USA | 14.06.2013 2012 | Cairo Green, Italian Cultural Center Cairo, Egypt | 26.11.2012 2012 | 4th Worldwide Congress on Clinical Robotics and Surgical Innovation, JW Marriott Hotel, Chicago, USA | 27. - 29.09.2012 2011 | Arduino Day, CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy | 14.04.2011 2010 | SusteinAbility, Fondazione Benetton, Treviso, Italy | 03.12.2010
ARCHITECTURE AND VISION Via del Piano 20, I-01020 Bomarzo (VT), Italy [email protected] 05 - 07 2010 | Design and Robotica, Technotown science museum, Rome, Italy | 14.05.2010 2009 | Rhino User Meeting, Universita degli Studi di Padova, Italy | 14.11.2009 2009 | Bauhaus To Green Haus, The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA | 02.04.2009 2009 | ORD Camp, UIC Innovation Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA | 30-31.01.2009 2009 | DLD Conference, Digital-Life-Design, Munich, Germany | 25-26.01.2009 2008 | Rhino User Meeting, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy | 12.06.2008 2008 | Gravity Free. The Year of Dangerous Minds, Chicago MSI, Illinois, USA | 14.07.2008 2007 | 2057, l’espace des 50 prochaines années, Cité de l’Espace, Toulouse, France | 27.11.2007 2007 | The Beauty of the Extreme, School of Architecture, IIT, Chicago, Illinois, USA | 13.11.2007 2007 | ICES International Conference for Environmental Systems, Chicago, Illinois, USA | 09.07.2007 2006 | 1st Infra-Free Life Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey | 11-15.12.2006 2006 | XIX Conference AIMAS, Architecture for Extreme Environment, Rome, Italy, 06.12.2006 2006 | University of Rome La Sapienza, School for Aerospace Engineering, Rome, Italy, 05.2006 2005 | 35th International Conference on Environmental Systems, Rome, Italy, 11.07.2005 2002 | 1st Space Architecture Symposium SAS, Poster session, Houston, Texas, USA, 10-11.10.2002
Publications: Arturo Vittori, Architecture and Vision, in ‘L’Arca’, 2004, 196, October, pp. 26-38 Arturo Vittori, Interview with Richard Rogers, in ‘L’Arca’, 2006, 216, July, pp. 18-19 Arturo Vittori, A Gahtering of Modern Day Leonardos. Chicago Museum of Science and Technology, in ‘US Italia Weekly’, 2006, May 21, p. 4 Arturo Vittori, Andreas Vogler, i, Spin-offs of Space Habitation: Attempt by Architecture+Vision, in ‘10+1’, 2007, 46, pp. 120-123 Arturo Vittori, MoonBaseTwo, in ‘L’Arca’, 2008, 235, April, pp. 65-71 Arturo Vittori, Andreas Vogler, A MoonBase on Earth. Unconventional Design. The MercuryHouseOne Project, in ‘Twill’, 2008, 11, December, pp. 106-109 Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler, Architecture and Vision: From Pyramids to Spacecraft, Architecture and Vision, Munich, Germany 2009, ISBN 978-3000269592
ARCHITECTURE AND VISION Via del Piano 20, I-01020 Bomarzo (VT), Italy [email protected] 06 - 07 Arturo Vittori, Andreas Vogler, Stephen Ransom, Loris Granziera, Roving Laboratory, in: Out of This World: The New Field of Space Architecture, edited by A. Scott Howe and Brent Sherwood, AIAA Reston, VA, USA, 2009, ISBN 978-1563479823 Arturo Vittori, Andreas Vogler, Space Architecture for the Mother Ship: Bringing it Home, in: Out of This World: The New Field of Space Architecture, edited by A. Scott Howe and Brent Sherwood, AIAA Reston, VA, USA, 2009, ISBN 978-1563479823 Arturo Vittori, La Macchina di SantaRosa, Fiore del Cielo, I Beni Culturali, 2014.
Conference Publications: Arturo Vittori, Andreas Vogler, Stephen Ransom, Wolf-Peter Foth, Mobile Pressurized Laboratory Design Study, SAE 2005-01-3051, 35th International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES) (Rome, Italy, July 11-14, 2005), Warrendale, PA: Society of Automotive Engineers, 2005 Arturo Vittori, Andreas Vogler, Genius Loci in the Space Age, 1st Infra-Free Life Symposium Istanbul, December 11-15, 2006
Exhibitions: ‘Architecture and Vision - solo Exhibition - ‘From Pyramids to Spacecraft’ Dubai - May 10 - 14, 2015, The Airport Show Beirut - May 05 - May 19, 2014, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik Alexandria - November 29 - January 15, 2013, The New Library of Alexandria Cairo - November 19 - 26, 2012, American University Addis Abeba - May 20 – June 5, 2012, Italian Cultural Center Cincinnati - April 20 – June 15, 2012, DAAP Library, University of Cincinnati Hamburg - March 27 – April 4, 2012, Italian Cultural Institute Munich - October 13, 2011 - January 13, 2012, Italian Cultural Institute Shanghai - May 13 - 22, 2011, Shanghai International Science & Art Exhibition, Pudong Expo Beijing - March 20 - 30, 2011, Beihang Art Gallery, Beihang University (BUAA) Cleveland - October 15, 2010 - January 13, 2011, Great Lakes Science Center Tokyo - June 21 - July 3, 2010, Italian Cultural Center Minneapolis - March 12 - May 2, 2010, Goldstein Museum of Design, University of Minnesota Seoul - October 09 - 29, 2009, Seoul Design Olympiad, Jamsil Sport Complex San Francisco - April 30 - May 20, 2009, Swissnex Chicago - March 11 - April 24, 2009, Italian Cultural Center Opening ceremony with Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Projects and designs by Arturo Vittori and the team Architecture and Vision have received international recognition and have been exhibited on various occasions and venues like: Centre Pompidou, Museum of Modern Art New York, Biennale Venice.
ARCHITECTURE AND VISION Via del Piano 20, I-01020 Bomarzo (VT), Italy [email protected] 07 - 07