Studio Fuksas

Studio Fuksas, led by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, is one of the most outstanding international architectural firm in the world. Over the past 40 years the company has developed an innovative approach through a strikingly wide variety of projects, ranging from urban interventions to airports, from museums to cultural centers and spaces for music, from convention centers to offices, from interiors to design collections. With headquarters in Rome, Paris and Shenzhen, and a staff of 170 professionals, the practice has completed more than 600 projects and has worked in Europe, Africa, America, Asia and Australia, receiving numerous international awards.

Biography

Massimiliano Fuksas

Massimiliano Fuksas of Lithuanian descent, was born in Rome in 1944. He graduated in Architecture from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1969. Since the Eighties he has been one of the main protagonists of the contemporary architectural scene. From 1994 to 1997 he was a member of the Planning Commissions in Berlin and Salzburg. In 1998 he was awarded for his professional career with "Vitruvio International a la Trayectoria" in Buenos Aires.

From 1998 to 2000 he directed the “VII Mostra Internazionale di Architettura di Venezia”, Less Aesthetics, More Ethics. In 1999 he received the Grand Prix National d’Architecture Française, the following year he was named National Academic of San Luca and was decorated Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République Française. In 2002 the Honorary Fellowship of the AIA – American Institute of Architects, Washington D.C. Three years later member of the Académie d'Architecture in Paris.

In 2006 the Honorary Fellowship of the RIBA – Royal Institute of British Architects, London UK and was named Cavaliere di Gran Croce della Repubblica Italiana. In 2010 he was decorated with Légion d’Honneur by the French President. In 2012 the Medal of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers in Italy, and the Global Lithuanian Award, Art and Culture category in Vilnius, Lithuania. The following year the Idea-Tops Awards, Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport-T3, awarded Best Transportation Space in Shenzhen, China. In 2014 Architizer A + Award and Architizer A + Popular Choice Award, Transportation-Airports category in New York.

From 2000 to 2015 he was author of the architecture column- founded by Bruno Zevi- in the Italian news magazine "L'Espresso" and from 2014 to 2015 he was, with his wife, the author of the Design column in the Italian newspaper "La Repubblica". He has been Visiting Professor at a number of Universities such as Columbia University in New York, the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris, the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien, the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart. Long since he is dedicating special attention to the study of urban problems in large metropolitan areas.

Doriana Mandrelli Fuksas

Doriana Mandrelli Fuksas was born in Rome where she graduated in History of Modern and Contemporary Architecture at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1979. She has also earned a degree in Architecture from ESA, École Spéciale d'Architecture, Paris. She has done didactic activities at the Institute of History of Art at the Faculty of Letters and Arts and at Industrial Design Department ITACA at “La Sapienza” University in Rome. She has curated four “Special Projects” at the “VII Mostra Internazionale di Architettura di Venezia”, Less Aesthetics, More Ethics in 2000: Jean Prouvè, Jean Maneval, the Peace Pavilion and Architecture of Spaces, and the Contemporary Art section.

She has worked with Massimiliano Fuksas in 1985 and has been director in charge of “Fuksas Design” since 1997. In 2002 she was decorated Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République Française. In 2006 Awards for Excellence Europe” ULI (Urban Land Institute), first prize awarded to New Trade Fair, Rho-Pero in Milan, Italy, Washington D. C. In 2012 Wallpaper* Design Awards 2012, EUR New Congress Centre, Rome, Italy awarded Best Building Site, London, UK. In 2013 she was decorated Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République Française. The same year the Idea-Tops Awards, Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport-T3, awarded Best Transportation Space in Shenzhen, China and Designer Kitchen & Bathroom Awards 2013, Impronta wash-basin for Catalano awarded Gold Winner in the Innovation in Design, London. From 2014 to 2015 she was, with Massimiliano Fuksas, the author of the Design column in the Italian newspaper "La Repubblica".

2014

Where Architects Live, Salone Internazione del Mobile, Milan

2013

Asia, installation in turkish marble for the exhibition “Bathing in Light” at the Art Garden of Superstudio Più, Fuori Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milan

Dieu(x), modes d’emploi, Petit-Palais- Musée des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris

2011

Verso Est. Chinese Architectural Landscape, Museo MAXXI in Rome

2009

Urban Solution, New Trade Fair, Rho-Pero in Milan, Italy

2008

Kensington Gardens, XI International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, Italy

Short Stories, Aldobrandini Stables, Frascati, Rome, Italy

Napolincroce, Donnaregina Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy

Deep Purple, Triennale, Milan

Gioiello Italiano Contemporaneo, tecniche e materiali tra arte e design, Villa Valmarana,

Vicenza, Castello Sforzesco, Milan, Italy

2007

Prototype of house – Construmat, Barcelona, Spain

MFuksasD. Un sessantesimo di secondo, MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy

2005

5 + 5 = 5- 5 anni 5 progetti, Aldobrandini Stables, Frascati, Rome, Italy

2004

Forma: La città moderna e il suo passato, Colosseum, Rome, Italy

2002

Interiors in piazza – La capsula abitabile, Milan, Italy

2000

Eur floating space, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

Occhi chiusi aperti, Esprit Nouveau Pavillion, Bologna, Italy

2000

Less Aesthetics, More Ethic, VII International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, Italy

Third Millennium House Study, Bologna, Italy

1996

One.Zero, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, UK

1995

MFuksas. Tutte le strade portano a Roma, Berlin, Germany

Massimiliano Fuksas, Klagenfurt, Austria

1994

Downtown MFuksas, Limoges, France

MFuksas, Wien, Austria

1992

Haute Tension, IFA- Institut Français d'Architecture -, Paris, France

Haute Tension 2, Buro & Design Centre, Bruxelles, Belgium

1991

Mistery Train, Yamagiwa Inspiration Gallery, Tokio, Japan

Architectures 1971-1983, Lille, France

1990

MFuksas Blue Town, Rome, Italy

1989

Villa Medici Grands Projets, Rome, Italy