Edoardo Milesi
Italy
Edoardo Milesi studied at the IUAV University of Venice and graduated in 1979 from the Polytechnic University of Milan with Franca Helg. He is an expert in the field of landscape and environmental protection, he has achieved specialization in numerous fields, including ecology in architecture, religious architecture and garden art. In 1990, he founded Archos studio, with which he carries out design activities spanning different areas and sizes, and which is characterized by consistent methods and constant research into environmental, social and construction aspects of architecture. He has always maintained that being an architect means dealing with man and his life in the complex cycles of nature. In addition to his professional practice, he constantly participates in cultural debate about contemporary architecture and is interested in disseminating and discussing his own experiments. In 2008, together with a group of artists and architects, he founded the magazine ArtApp, of which he is editor-in-chief. In 2014, he founded the cultural association Scuola Permanente dell’Abitare (Permanent School of Living). Access Edoardo Milesi Newsroom
Featured Designs
Edoardo Milesi
Concert Hall
Forum Fondazione Bertarelli is a concert hall for 350 people surrounded only by nature on the slopes of Mount Amiata, in the Tuscan Maremma, where amplification takes place thanks to the shape generated by golden ratio and natural materials, in order to avoid it from being too rigid in that environment created by the light and wind. Replaces a plan which, in that very place, provided for a complex of nine residential buildings. Aesthetic values are not perceived as added, they are part of the building and radiate from it. From the sky it looks like an olive still attached to its nearest leaf.
A' Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award - Golden (2021) - Access Edoardo Milesi Concert Hall Press Kit
Edoardo Milesi
Private House
Inhabited Roccolo is a contemporary reinterpretation of a "roccolo", a typical bird catcher hut of the Lombard Alps landscape that combines tradition with a contemporary look to the future. It was designed to escape the stress of the urban world, where aesthetic ideals are sublimated in the modesty of simple forms and natural materials, while leaving complexity to nature around it, a vertical place that connects the earth and the cosmos through the soul. The morphological discontinuity of the fronts, made up of heterogeneous volumes and different materials, characterise the project.
A' Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award - Silver (2021) - Access Edoardo Milesi Private House Press Kit
Edoardo Milesi
Private Residence
The harmonious integration into the surrounding landscape guided the formal and functional choices of this project, designed to accommodate the morphology and topography of the site, that takes quality and ecological commitment into high consideration. The two housing units, that share the common service areas on the ground floor, propose different ways of living, as they are developed differently to the local countryside. Materials and the dry-type construction, are in line with the eco-sustainable design to respond to the desire to live in a house in the green without wasting natural space.
A' Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award - Silver (2021) - Access Edoardo Milesi Private Residence Press Kit