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Marco Visconti

Marco Visconti

Turin, IT

 

About 

Marco Visconti was born in Turin in 1957, a master's degree in  architectural composition at UCLA in Los Angeles, he graduated in engineering from the Politecnico di Torino and in architecture at the University of Genoa. He collaborated with Renzo Piano from 1984 to 1986,    from 1987 to 2006 works in Turin as the group's director of architecture  Fiatengineering .
Founded in January 2007 in Turin a professional office that deals with  sustainability in architecture for tertiary, industry, education and culture.  In response to the environmental emergency, the group creates an architecture motivated by respect for nature and from '' interpretation of the new cultural needs related to the changing needs of man. His office, Marco Visconti architects, is a multidisciplinary creative workshop where architects and engineers pose, at the base of their work, the bioclimatic passive key. Fundamental characteristic of their projects is the search for the best relationship between man and nature in a logic of use and understanding of the surrounding environment .
Among the achievements, the industrial complex Fiat Melfi; computer centers for Railways in Mestre and Palermo, the Iveco training center in Turin, the training center in Lecce Hitachi ; showrooms for cars in Berlin, Paris, London, the halls Mechanics, Painting and Restaurant for Ferrari in Maranello, the conference room of the automobile museum in Turin, the building services of the circuit of Mugello, the Tower of Lodi office Zucchetti.
Marco Visconti is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Architecture at the Politecnico di Torino and lectures at numerous Italian and foreign universities. And he is the author of some publications and thematic books and his projects are documented by the most important international architecture .

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Employment 

Marco Visconti architects, Turin, IT, Principal

Jan 2007 - current
 

Aedas, Turin, IT, Director of the Italian group Aedas Visconti

Jan 2007 - Jan 2011
 

Maire Engineering spa, Turin, IT, Director of the architecturak group

Jan 1986 - Jan 2007
 

Renzo Piano (Building Workshop), Genova, Architect

Jan 1984 - Jan 1986
 

Education 

Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova, IT, MArch, Architecture

Degree in Architecture

Sep 1992 - Jan 1993
 

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), California , Masters, M.Arch II

Qualification awared: M.Arch II

Jan 1989 - Jan 1990
 

Politecnico di Torino, Torino, BArch, Civil Engineering

Degree in Civil Engineering

Sep 1982 - Sep 1987
 

Awards 

Property Summit 2012 Europe, Office Building Category, 1st Place

Marco Visconti architects won the award for International Property Award 2012 in the category Office Building with Tower project Zucchetti realization in Lodi.

2012
 

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