CINO ZUCCHI
curated and edited by Francesca Serrazanetti e Matteo Schubert
Moleskine (November 21, 2012)
Moleskine Inspiration & Process in Architecture series
Born in Milano in 1955, he graduated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) in 1978 and at the Politecnico di Milano in 1979, where he is currently Chair Professor of Architectural and Urban Design. He has been visiting professor at the Syracuse University in Florence in 1989 and 1990 and at the ETH in Zurich in 1997 and 1998. His essays and writings appeared in many international magazines and books. He is in the Forum of the architectural magazine “Lotus international” since 1996. He is the author of the books L'architettura dei cortili milanesi 1535- 1706 published by Electa in 1989, Asnago e Vender. L'astrazione quotidiana - architetture e progetti 1925-1970 (with F. Cadeo e M. Lattuada), published by Skira in 1999, and is editor of the book Bau-Kunst-Bau published by Clean in 1994. He participated to the organization and exposition design of the XV, XVI, XVIII and XIX Triennale of Milano and his work has been shown in several editions of the Biennale in Venice. He has designed many industrial, residential and public buildings, a number of projects for public spaces, renewal of agricultural, industrial and historical areas, master plans and submissions to many national and international competitions.
Major recent works include the large master plan for the Keski Pasila area, Helsinki, residential and office buildings for the former Alfa Romeo-Portello area, Milano, the U15 office building in Assago (Milano), the Salewa Headquarters in Bozen, the new Lavazza headquarters in Turin and the extension and renovation of the Turin National Car Museum. His works have been selected for or awarded prizes in the Premio nazionale di architettura “Luigi Cosenza”1992 and 1994, European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture 2001, Piranesi Award 2001, Medaglia d’oro all’architettura italiana 1995-2003, 2004-2006 and 2009, Brick Award 2004, “Comune di Venezia” Architecture Award 2005, ECOLA Award 2008 in the category “Black Bread Architecture”, the International Award Architecture in Stone 2009, the InArch/Ance Award 2011 and the US Award 2011.
