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Architecture as a Form of Dialogue
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Every piece of architecture condenses multiple desires, becoming a living organism that evolves over time and shapes our lives, our view of the world, and the experiences of the communities that encounter, inhabit, and reinterpret it. For these reasons, the exhibition on Archeas work is conceived through the words, perspectives, and experiences of clients involved in the studios most significant projects of the past twenty years, expressing the sense of continuity and completeness that defines a meaningful contemporary architecture.

Travelling and engaging in dialogue with such diverse and distinctive clients across Asia and eurospe offers the public a fresh, at times disorienting, perspective on Archeas work. Above all, it enables a clearer understanding of the levels of complexity that contemporary architectural practice must confront when operating globally, across different scales, images, and places. The clients words resonate with the world of the Archea studio, creating a system of echoes and affinities. They reflect its working methodology, its key figures, its obsessions, and its commitment to a distinct idea of "Italian" design. These elements have become defining markers of the studios maturity. Founded in Florence by Laura Andreini, Marco Casamonti, and Giovanni Polazzi, and joined by Silvia Fabi in 2001 with the establishment of Archea Associati, Archea is today one of the Italian studios with the widest international presence.

Luca Molinari is a curator and writer whose work spans academic research and cultural practice. Since 2007, he has taught History of Contemporary Architecture at SUN (Seconda Universita degli Studi di Napoli). He is currently a visiting professor at the Cornell University of Architecture, Art, and Planning in Rome and at Fondazione Fotografia in Modena. He served as dean of the School of Design at NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) from 2005 to 2006.

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