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Anna Rita Emili altro_studio

Anna Rita Emili altro_studio

Roma Italy

 

About 

Anna Rita Emili -Architect

Graduated in 1990, at the Rome "La Sapienza" University of Architecture; From 1996 she teachers Architectural Design as collaborator of Alessandro Anselmi at the "Roma tre" Faculty of Architecture; From 1998 becomes contract Professor of Theory end Techniques of Architecture at Ascoli Piceno University, Faculty of Architecture, as collaborator of C.Toraldo di Francia (Superstudio); in 1996 starts collaboration with Stalker Team (laboratory of urban art) and in 1998 she found altro_studio in Rome. Currently she is researcher and teachers at University of Camerino, Faculty of Architecture of Ascoli Piceno. In 1999 her book, The Covering as an architectural theme was published by Diagonale (Rome), and in 2003 her book Richard Buckminster Fuller and the New Avant-garde was published by Kappa (Rome);. In 2005 Publisched altro_studio’s catalogues titled altro_studio from the temporary house to the living unit, and in 2006 the web site www.altro-studio.it. In 2008 was publisched book titled Pure and Simple the architecture of New Brutalism, Rome. In 2010 was publisched the website www.altro-studio.com and in 2011 the book titled Architettura estrema, il Neobrutalismo alla prova della contemporanietà, Quodlibet, Macerata. In 2014 was publisched altro_studio’s catalogues titled altro_studio from the temporary house to the living unit, volume II, Plug-in, Genoa

Employment 

Altro_Studio, Rome Italy, Architecture office

The philosophy behind the work of the studio
altro_studio was set up in 1998 by a group of people willing to work in an inter-disciplinary environment (at first the group was composed by one architect, two artists – one of them belonging to the Stalker group –, one historian and urban planner and some collaborators). Taking its cue from the idea of inter-disciplinary activity, altro_studio has developed, from the very beginning, a research stemming from the specific field of housing, starting from nomadic housing (temporary house) and ending with the living unit. The activity mainly addresses the new ways of living the house: temporary, flexible, transformable, mobile ways of living the house. Understanding the new needs of the individual, both on a functional and on a structural level, is what propels altro_studio in its research about new technologies (mainly automation) and new materials with particular reference to the problems of environmental sustainability.

Being firmly convinced that architecture is a perfect synthesis of science and art, my inspirations are, on one hand, as I said before, the facts determining the reality around us (this finds expression in the use of new techniques and materials), and, on the other hand, the study of the various arts: music, philosophy, literature, but above all the figurative arts. Art has always been the utmost expression of political, cultural and social thought and is typically expressed and developed long before architecture. The knowledge of art as well as an artist’s mindset are essential components of the spirit of an architect. It is this “artist’s mindset” that distinguishes a real architect from a mere technician of architecture.

Our ambitions are to look constantly ahead, at the world around us and project it into the future. Our goal is to offer real answers to the kind of problems that increasingly affect the reality we live in. What we are talking about are events affecting the entire planet such immigration, mobility, complexity, etc., or natural phenomena such as desertification, hurricanes, floods, etc., or even computerization, an increasingly fast communication, etc. … Our purpose is to discern, based on social, anthropological, political experience, what will be the developments of future society without omitting near-future scenarios that might be not so optimistic. In that case, our message becomes a warning that cannot be ignored

Jan 1998 - current
 

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