Marco Piva, Italian

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

interior designer Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to achieve a healthier and more aesthetically pleasing environment for the people using the space. An interior designer is someone who plans, researches, coordina ...

and product designer, born on February 15, 1952, in

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Biography

He graduated in

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

Politecnico di Milano The Polytechnic University of Milan () is the largest technical university in Italy, with about 42,000 students. The university offers undergraduate, graduate and higher education courses in engineering, architecture and design. Founded in 186 ...

and founded STUDIODADA in 1977, that was one of the main design offices of the radical period. In 1990, he opens his own brand, Studio Marco Piva, with activities ranging from large architectural projects for tourist facilities, to

interior design Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to achieve a healthier and more aesthetically pleasing environment for the people using the space. An interior designer is someone who plans, researches, coordina ...

, masterplan, and finally

industrial design Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical Product (business), products that are to be manufactured by mass production. It is the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features, which takes place in advan ...

. From 1987 to 1990, he was member of the Presidential Board of ''

Associazione per il Disegno Industriale ADI (Associazione per il Disegno Industriale) is an association of about 1.100 designers, manufacturers, trade newspeople, schools and researchers on design based in Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the R ...

'' (''ADI''). In 1987, Marco Piva also founded IDA, International Design Agency, an Italian interface for a World Design Network system. In 2001, a variety of experiences in strategic consulting in the field of

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and hotel hospitality culminated in consulting with the

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division of Federlegno. In 2002, “Atelier Design” was established, the Studio's atelier which was created as a centre for

research and development. Meantime, this remarkable activity has been combined with teaching positions at universities and design institutes both in

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...

and abroad, and the organisation of the post-graduate master's degree program at the

the Polytechnic School of Design and the

Istituto Europeo di Design The Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) is a private design school in Italy founded in 1966 by Francesco Morelli. The school is organized into four disciplines: Design, Fashion, Visual Communication and Management. It is spread over nine cities ...

Major works

* Osaka Gas Corporation Ltd. “Building”– Osaka, interior design, 1992-1994 * Hotel Carrobbio – Milano, Interior Design, 1997-1999 * Eurocongressi Hotel – Cavaion, Verona Interior Design, 1998-2000 * Starhotel Michelangelo – Firenze, Inteior Design, 1998-2000 * Hotel dei Cavalieri Milano, (7th floor and meeting rooms interior design, 2000-2002) * Laguna Palace Hotel – Venezia, Architettura & Interior Design, 2000-2002 * Hotel Mirage –

Kazan Kazan ( ; rus, Казань, p=kɐˈzanʲ; tt-Cyrl, Казан, ''Qazan'', IPA: ɑzan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka rivers, covering a ...

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Architecture & Interior Design, 2001-2003 * Port Palace Monaco –

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, Interior Design, 2002-2004 * T Hotel Cagliari, 2003-2005 * Club Med –

Caprera Caprera is an island in the Maddalena archipelago off the coast of Sardinia, Italy. In the area of La Maddalena island in the Strait of Bonifacio, it is a tourist destination and the place to which Giuseppe Garibaldi retired from 1854 until his ...

, Master Plan Concept, 2006 * Porto Dubai –

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, Master Plan, 2006 * Tiara Hotel –

, Interior Design, 2006-2010 * Hotel Residence Le Terrazze –

Villorba Villorba is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Treviso in the Italian region Veneto, located about north of Venice and about north of Treviso. Villorba borders the following municipalities: Arcade, Carbonera, Ponzano Veneto, Povegli ...

, Architettura, 2006-2011 * Move Hotel –

Mogliano Veneto Mogliano Veneto ( vec, Mogian ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Treviso, Veneto, northern Italy, located halfway between Mestre (Venice) and Treviso. Culture Mogliano is well known for the Medieval festival, which takes place in Septe ...

Architettura, Interior & Light Design, 2009-2011 * Complessi residenziali a Milano progettati con

Zaha Hadid Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid ( ar, زها حديد ''Zahā Ḥadīd''; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect, artist and designer, recognised as a major figure in architecture of the late 20th and early 21st centu ...

Daniel Libeskind Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946) is a Polish–American architect, artist, professor and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect. He is known for the design a ...

, 2010-2013 *

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Feng-Tai Financial District – Concept design, Master Plan, 2011 * Rawdhat Residential Buildings – Abu Dhabi, 2012 * Hotel Excelsior Gallia –

, Architecture, Landscape, Lighting, Interior Design, 2010-2015 * Casa Alitalia lounges –

Milan Malpensa Milan Malpensa Airport is the largest international airport in northern Italy, serving Lombardy, Piedmont and Liguria, as well as the Swiss Canton of Ticino. The airport is northwest of Milan, next to the Ticino river dividing Lombardy and ...

Fiumicino Airport Fiumicino () is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, central Italy, with a population of 80,500 (2019). It is known for being the site of Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport, the busiest airport in Italy and the eleventh-bu ...

, 2016 * Pantheon Iconic Hotel –

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, Interior Design, 2018 * La Suite Hotel –

Matera Matera (, ; Materano: ) is a city in the region of Basilicata, in Southern Italy. As the capital of the province of Matera, its original settlement lies in two canyons carved by the Gravina River. This area, the Sassi di Matera, is a comple ...

, Interior Design, 2019 * Palazzo del Touring Club Italiano, Milano, 2021 *

Palazzo Nani Palazzo Nani is a Renaissance palace in the Cannaregio district of Venice, Italy. History The palazzo was built in the 16th century to be a residence of the Nani family of the "Cannaregio" branch (later Nani Mocenigo). In the 1680s, the palazzo w ...

, Venezia, 2021 * Tonino Lamborghini Towers –

Chengdu Chengdu (, ; Simplified Chinese characters, simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively Romanization of Chi ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

Interior Design - on going * Princype Residential Complex –

Architecture & Interior Fit out - on going

Awards and acknowledgement

Triennale The Triennale di Milano is a design and art museum in the Parco Sempione in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It is housed in the Palazzo dell'Arte, which was designed by Giovanni Muzio and built between 1931 and 1933; construction was fina ...

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* Landesgewerbemt Museum –

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

* Design Center –

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...

* Kortrijk Design Biennale Interieur –

Kortrijk Kortrijk ( , ; vls, Kortryk or ''Kortrik''; french: Courtrai ; la, Cortoriacum), sometimes known in English as Courtrai or Courtray ( ), is a Belgian City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Regio ...

* European Community Design Prize –

Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...

* Una Camera per l’Europa – Genoa * Contract World Award –

Hannover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German States of Germany, state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germa ...

* The European Hotel Design Awards -

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

* Hospitality Award 2009 – Innovation * Best Communicator Award, Marmomacc 2010, Verona * ADI Design Index 2011 for the design of MGM Furnari
World Travel Awards
for the Excelsior Hotel Gallia, 2015-2016-2017-2018-2019-2020 *

Good Design Award In most contexts, the concept of good denotes the conduct that should be preferred when posed with a choice between possible actions. Good is generally considered to be the opposite of evil and is of interest in the study of ethics, morality, ph ...

, 2017, ZEIT handle for Mandelli1953 * ADI Index, 2017, Category “Exhibition”, Designing the Complexity
IF Design Award
2018, Book radiator design Marco Piva for Caleido * China Awards 2018, Capital Elite award for the urban development in China *

Wallpaper (magazine) ''Wallpaper'', stylized ''Wallpaper*'', is a publication focusing on design and architecture, fashion, travel, art, and lifestyle. The magazine was launched in London in 1996 by Canadian journalist Tyler Brûlé and Austrian journalist Alexander ...

Design Awards, 2019, Dream Factory category, Marty, Visionnaire
Luxury Lifestyle Awards
2020, category “Best Luxury Architect and Interior Design Studios in Milan, Italy”

Main exhibitions

* Light Hours - Salon du Meuble, Paris * Marco Piva Designs for Tomorrow – Host,

* Design Bar, Il Caos Felice – Sia Guest, Rimini * Sicis Teatro, L’arte dell’abitare tra materia e luce – CRT Teatro dell’Arte, Milan, 2006 * Marco Piva Notebook Design Party – Teatro dell’Arte, I Saloni 2008, Milano * Interni Design Energies – Limitless Color Tower – "University of Milan" * Beauty Cave – Interni Think Tank – Università degli Studi di Milano * La mano del Designer – disegni di Marco Piva – Villa Necchi Campiglio – Triennale Bovisa, Milano * Marmomacc Meets Design “Irregolare Eccezionale” – Marmomacc 2010, Verona Fiere * Tron Designs Corian –

Milan Furniture Fair The Milan Furniture Fair ( it, Salone Internazionale del Mobile di Milano) is a furniture fair held annually in Milan. It is the largest trade fair of its kind in the world. The exhibition showcases the latest in furniture and design from countrie ...

2011

Product design

* A Project * Altreforme *

Arflex Arflex is an Italian company that makes and sells contemporary furniture. History In 1947, after the war, a group of researchers and entrepreneurs began to work on two new upholstering materials, foam rubber and elastic tape made by Pirelli, ...

* Arpa * Bross Italia * Corinto * Deko Collezioni * Ege * Iradium *

Jacuzzi Jacuzzi Brands LLC (; ), through its subsidiaries, is a global manufacturer and distributor of branded baths, hot tubs, pools, saunas and, formerly, aircraft. Founded in 1915 by the Italian family of the same name, Jacuzzi is a federally regist ...

* La Murrina *

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* Meritalia * Moroso * Novello * Pedrali * Potacco * Rapsel * Reflex * Rubinetterie Stella * Uno Più * Vda * Valpra * Zonca

References

External links

Marco Piva
Official website
Tharaa Holding unveils Hadara brand & signature projects by Marco Piva

Project Concepts

on Edilportale

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