presentazione/introduction
New geometries testo Marco Casamonti

dialoghi di architettura/architectural dialogues
Sentimental education a dialogue among Marco Casamonti, Pier Paolo Tamburelli and Cino Zucchi
Grafting a skype conversation between Steven Holl and Cino Zucchi

scenari di architettura/architectural scenario
Copycat. Empathy and Envy as Form Makers. Venice, Italy
In the body of the city. Rome, Italy
Benetton façade in rue Neuve. Brussels, Belgium
S2-S3 residential buildings. Ex Rossi Catelli area. Parma, Italy
Apartment building on the harbour. Ravenna, Italy
Vedeggio-Cassarate Gallery. Lugano, Switzerland
Christ Resurrection Church. Sesto San Giovanni, Milan, Italy
National Automobil Museum renovation and addition. Turin, Italy
Office building U15 Milanofiori. Assago, Italy
Salewa headquarters. Bozen, Italy
Central Pasila. Helsinki, Finland
Ex Vismara area renewal plan. Casatenovo, Lecco, Italy
Tirana Northern Boulevard & River Project. Tirana, Albania
East block residential building. Garibaldi Repubblica area, Milan, Italy
Trilogia Navile residential buildings. Bologna, Italy
Bocconi, new urban campus. Milan, Italy
Social Housing Cascina Merlata. Milan, Italy
New Eni Exploration and Production headquarters. San Donato Milanese, Milan, Italy
Lavazza headquarters. Turin, Italy
Swiss Re Next. Zürich, Switzerland

itinerario moderno/modern itinerary
Modern in the City a cura di Cino Zucchi

cza works and bibliography

itinerario contemporaneo/contemporary itinerary
Milan, Italy

esiti concorsi/competitions

recensioni mostre e libri/ exhibition and book reviews

new media


Cino Zucchi: from the MIT to the Polytechnic and back

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

Marco Casamonti and Cino Zucchi in CZA office. Photo by Pietro Savorelli To suggest a critical reading of an architect and a work that is so close both on a…

Sentimental education a dialogue among Marco Casamonti, Pier Paolo Tamburelli and Cino Zucchi

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

Marco Casamonti: We did not decide to do a monographic issue on your work based on considerations of an “autarchic“ nature on Italian architectural culture, but rather because we are…

Grafting – a skype conversation between Steven Holl and Cino Zucchi

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

View of Cino Zucchi Architetti office  in Milan – photo by Pietro Savorelli After the three-way conversation – Casamonti, Tamburelli, Zucchi – Area proposes and participates in a conversation via…

Copycat. Empathy and envy as form makers

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

The installation by CZA gives body to the idea that formal cultures propagate through “contagious” processes which combine imitation and innovation, creating sequences of artefacts linked by subtle variations on…

In the body of the city

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

The recurring analogies between city and biological organisms incorporated in our language over the centuries demonstrate our sense of guilt toward Mother Nature and her presumed infallibility. They speak of…

Benetton façade in rue Neuve

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

The design for the facade in Rue Neuve, is the combination of two different interpretations. The first regards its physical location, its concrete surroundings; the second comes from a more…

S2-S3 residential buildings Ex-Rossi Catelli area

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

The site of the project is situated in the north-west corner of the new intervention, straddled between the bustle of daily life of the avenues that connect the area to…

Apartment building on the harbour

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

A Plaster Mosaic. The new residential building is part of a large urban renewal project next to the Ravenna station on both sides of an artificial canal serving as a…

Vedeggio-Cassarate gallery

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

An environmental sculpture for the city of Lugano. Tunnels are “wounds” inflicted on geology to facilitate human movements. Their history is ancient, glorious and violent, but today the techniques have…

Christ resurrection church Sesto San Giovanni

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

The context (an industrial suburb of Milan) and the existing building to be replaced (a warehouse converted church-hall built by a group of worker priest in the 1960s) generated a…

National Automobile Museum renovation and addition

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

The museum complex, designed by Amedeo Albertini in 1958-60, is comprised of various bodies, the main section of which, a convex 114 meter façade faces onto the Po river and…

Office building U15 Milanofiori

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

New urban landscapes. The U15 building is located in the new Milanofiori Nord district which is being built according to the master plan designed by Erick van Egeraat, in an area…

Salewa headquarters

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

The new headquarters for the sportswear brand Salewa, one of the most prominent manufacturers in Bolzano, is situated in an exceptional location adjacent to the Bolzano highway suggesting a “landscape”…

Central Pasila

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

The station of Pasila is located a few kilometres from the city centre, in a point that is very accessible to both rail and road transport, which will be supplemented…

Ex Vismara area renewal plan

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

The Vismara area is inextricably linked to the center of Casatenovo, and its reform represents a unique opportunity to rethink the entire structure of the town and its relationship with the…

Tirana northern boulevard & river project

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

A flowing boulevard, an urban river. The center of Tirana is characterized by a clear urban layout, but its recent growth created a large area around it without any order,…

East Block residential building Garibaldi Repubblica area

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

An architectural story Without attempting any shortcuts of a “mimetic” kind – that often reveal their superficial and opportunistic character on closer examination – the project rereads, in a contemporary…

Trilogia Navile residential buildings

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

Tall volumes that overlook the hilly landscape, resting on block-shaped foundations that define a new system of public spaces and enclose green courts: the urban model adopted by the master…

Bocconi new urban campus

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

The walls around the former Dairy Central, which historically only served a functional purpose today delimit a “missing block” in the city, a space excluded from its life, which the…

Social Housing Cascina Merlata

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

The masterplan for the new area of social housing in Cascina Merlata proposes a dense residential quarter of high volumes alternating with communal gardens. The design of two residential towers…

New ENI exploration and production headquarters San Donato Milanese

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

If each building of the Metanopoli history represents the culture and values of the era when it was built, their sequence can now become the “genetic code“ of a new evolution,…

Lavazza headquarters

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

The design proposed for the new Lavazza headquarters of and the renovation of the former Enel power station near Largo Brescia shows a profound appreciation of the history of the…

Swiss Re Next

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

The concept at the base of the project is clearly represented by the longitudinal section of the structure, where it is possible to identify two complimentary bodies that characterize the…

Modern in the City

area 125 | cino zucchi cza

The bombs that fell on Milano in 1943 left a wounded city. Many architects, even famous ones, worked as “barefoot doctors” to catalogue the level of conservation of the buildings…

contemporary itinerary: Milan

area 125 | cino zucchi cza