WAREHOUSE OF ARCHITECTURE AND RESEARCH

The firm, a Mannerist by vocation, takes note of discards as heroic episodes internal to the architectural discipline, seamlessly. It accumulates, catalogs, trashes, disassembles, copies, and reassembles excellent architectures at every design opportunity. A double coding, ironic but also very serious, prone to celebration as well as mockery, which found in Rome an ideal palimpsest from which to draw nourishment for this ambivalent action. WAR has exhibited and curated shows in several American galleries and universities (Parsons, Pratt, Tulane), at the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Betts Project in London, at the Shenzhen Biennial as well as in numerous Italian cities. WAR conceived the magazine Panteon and jealously guards the Passarelli Fund; he is an advisor at the American Academy in Rome and the Giorgio Muratore Study Center; he lectures at the University of Pisa and the European Institute of Design. After a long and peculiar imaginative and professional journey, which began by designing with Oscar winner Luca Bigazzi and the Cineteca di Bologna the

exhibition The Clothes of Dreams in Piazza Navona, today the studio continues an activity that ranges and digresses between publishing, design, architecture and urban design, an uninterrupted declaration of love towards architectural design.