Author Archives: Davide Tommaso Ferrando

The ongoing transformation of a clay factory near Turin in Italy facilitates both industrial functions and artistic practices

A complex exercise of subtraction, the Carena Offices playfully balance structural bravura and narrative depth

The Carena guardhouse wastes as little material as possible

Munlab’s final form is the product of the material stock that was available in the moment of its design.

In Milan’s Bicocca neighbourhood, Balance Architettura have extended the life of a 1950s industrial headquarters

Enrico Sassi’s reorganisation of the marble quarries in Arzo allows a new kind of life following five centuries of extraction

Davide Tommaso Ferrando is a critic, researcher and curator interested in the intersections between architecture, city and media

Shortlisted for the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture 2020: the transformation of a ’60s school in Turin by Simona Della Rocca of BDR Bureau is a textbook example of how to renovate, regenerate and reanimate a tired structure

Changing techniques of dissemination, from print to digital, continue to shift and democratise the perception of architecture

Women in Architecture Moira Gemmill Prize winner 2018: combining innovations in construction techniques and materials as simple as Paraguayan brick has had award-winning results for Gloria Cabral and Gabinete de Arquitectura