The Italian Architect Behind Is-Suq Tal-Belt Will Be Asking Critical Questions About Society And Design This Evening
Malta Design Week: Design Dialogues 2018 is coming to an end, and what an end it’s set to be.
Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning Marco Casamonti, co-founder of Archea, an international network for over 100 architects, will be ending the week with a discussion on the design, renovation and restoration of his much-talked about contribution to Valletta: Is-Suq tal-Belt.
Casamonti, whose firm Archea designed the recently renovated Is-Suq tal-Belt, has been involved in a number of impressive projects. With branches of his architectural and design office in Florence, Rome, and Milan, and partner firms in Beijing, Dubai and San Paolo, Archea has shaped how some parts of the world look and feel, including a part of Malta’s capital city.
In the course of the years the firm has been invited to prestigious national and international competitions and has won numerous international recognitions and has participated, with their built works, in several editions of the Venice Biennale of Architecture.
Marco Casamonti graduated in 1990 from the University of Florence, and in 2001 became Ordinary Professor in Architectural and Urban Design at the Architecture Faculty of the University of Genoa
He carried out intensive research and critical analysis on architecture themes, publishing essays and papers and holding conferences and lectures. Since 1997, he has been the editor-in-chief of the international architecture magazine Area published by Tecniche Nuove Group. In 1988, he founded Studio Archea together with Laura Andreini and Giovanni Polazzi, to whom was associated Silvia Fabi in 1999.
The event will be held at the University of Malta, Valletta Campus Theatre, at 17:30 – 20:30 today.
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