Archinect
Alberto Faliva

Alberto Faliva

Milan, IT

 

About 

Architect, interior designer, 3D visualizer and Architectural researcher (collaboration with Architects P.Louis Faloci, Atelier Ternes-RPBW in Paris, Guido Canali, and 6 years with Gregotti Associati International, Milan) degree with prof.Howard Burns and M.Chatenet, IUAV-Venezia, PhD in CESR Tours -France- with prof. Y.Pauwels, and PhD in Reading with prof. P.Davies, UK. Honorary Research Fellow in the University of Leicester, UK with prof. D.Ekserdjian. Senior Architect for the new BBraun offices in Melsungen/Germany with Wilford Schupp architects (James Stirling) and Prisma Milan. Author of the interior design - with Prisma Milan- for corporations offices in Milan (Azimut, Prelios, Lidl, Accenture, Fujitsu, Fastweb). Author of the interior design for a Luxury hotel in Parma (Italy) and of several retail design (3d viz.for Giorgio Armani). Coordinator of a series of conferences (with Oscar winners like Dante Ferretti, emeritus professors like J.Rykwert, M.Gregori, V.Gregotti) about the ephemeral world of scenography and contemporary art - architecture, and an exhibition about the Renaissance villa, in New York -NYU-, in Paris (with prof. Alain Erlande Brandenburg for the Musee National de la Renaissance, and prof. R.J.Knecht, with a second step in the Hotel de Galliffet, Paris) and Casa del Mantegna in Mantua, palazzo Roncadelli Manna in Cremona with prof. R.Ingersoll, Catalogue Electa), with a third step in London (Westminster Univ., LFA, 2015). Author -with M. Tonon- of the first software (with six degrees of freedom for any OS), which allows interactions (without glasses or helmets) with a simple webcam, for the user in front of a giant render (Photorealistic) in real-time: the user simply moves the head and the image shows the depth of the space.
http://youtu.be/Z5TyXyQ6mhg 

Specialties: Architecture / Art exhibitions / Interior Design / innovative Visualisation softwares / renders / Urban Planning / Photography / Innovations / Art and Architecture researcher

Employment 

Gregotti Associati International, Architect

Winner for III position, International architecture Cremona Railway Station Competition, architectural drawings for the new settlement of Pujiang New Town and Ningbo (China), for PortoViro (Italy), architectural for the preservation plan of Tivoli (Rome), and ricetto of Casalbeltrame (Novara) , architectural history drawings Exposition in chateau d’Ecouen (Paris) and Casa del Mantegna (Mantova) with prof.Alain Erlande Brandenburg, Renaissance Franco-Italienne.

Mar 2004 - Dec 2009
 

Università degli Studi di Brescia, ASSISTANT

Faculty of Engineering-Architecture , University of Brescia, Italy; HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE COURSE, ASSISTANT

Jan 2001 - Jul 2003
 

Studio Guido Canali, ARCHITECT

Staff architect and Honorary Fellow Università di Ferrara, faculty of architecture,
Course of Architectural Composition prof. Guido Canali.

Jan 2001 - Mar 2002
 

ATELIER DES TERNES, P.L.COPAT/ RPBW, ARCHITECT

CAD drawings / INTERIOR DESIGN FOR PRIVATE HOUSES IN PARIS

Jan 1997 - Feb 1998
 

Agence Pierre-Louis Faloci, Architect

drawings of Palais de Justice de Narbonne (competition)

Mar 1995 - Jul 1996
 

Education 

University of Reading, PhD, HISTORY OF ART

The pseudo-fortified villa in the plain of the Po river during the 16th century.

Nov 2008 - current
 

University of Leicester, PhD, HONORARY RESEARCH FELLOW

Research about Renaissance architects Francesco and Giuseppe Dattaro
with prof. David Ekserdjian, History of Art and film Depart., Leicester University

Jan 2006 - Dec 2007
 

Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, PhD, HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

The chateau de Madrid in Paris (1527) and the Renaissance architects Francesco and Giuseppe Dattaro, from Cremona. Research about French-Italian connections on XVIth century.

Nov 2001 - Dec 2004
 

Università IUAV di Venezia, BArch, Architecture

Dissertation with prof.Howard Burns, History of Architecture.
The Renaissance architects Francesco and Giuseppe Dattaro, from Cremona.

Nov 1992 - Jan 2001
 

Awards 

International architecture Cremona Railway Station Competition, 3rd Place

Winner for III position, International architecture Cremona Railway Station Competition

2008
 

Areas of Specialization 

Skills