Doriana & Massimiliano Fuksas - online lecture

You can join the online meeting with the prominent Italian architectural duo Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas today, May 19, 2020, at 5:00 PM Central European Time after registering at ZOOM.

This online event was initiated by students of the Confluence Institute for Innovation and Creative Strategies in Architecture in Paris and could be included in the program of the 12th edition of the International Festival of Architecture, Design, and Art ARCHIKULTURA 2020 thanks to the kind permission of its founder Odile Decq, with whom the Architecture Cabinet, z. s. has been collaborating since 2017.

The Fuksas studio, led by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, is one of the prominent architectural companies with a wide international scope. Over the last 40 years, it has prepared many projects focusing on the transformation and revitalization of various types of urban structures, including office buildings, cultural, music, and congress centers, museums, and airports, with an emphasis on the perfection of the execution of buildings, including their interiors and individual details. 

With 170 professional employees working in offices in Rome, Paris, Shenzhen, and Dubai, the studio has completed more than 600 projects spread across Europe, Africa, America, Asia, and Australia, and has received several prestigious international awards.

Massimiliano Fuksas is of Lithuanian descent. He was born in Rome in 1944, where he studied architecture at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (969). Since the 1980s, he has been considered one of the main protagonists of the contemporary architectural scene.

From 1994 to 1997, he was a member of planning commissions in Berlin and Salzburg. In 1998, he was awarded the “Vitruvio International a la Trayectoria” in Buenos Aires for his professional career. From 1998 to 2000, he was entrusted with the position of general curator of the VII International Architecture Biennale in Venice, which was entitled Less Aesthetics, More Ethics. In 1999, he received the national award Grand Prix National d'Architecture Française, and the following year he was accepted as a member of the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca and was awarded Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République Française. In 2002, he received an honorary fellowship AIA in Washington D.C. Three years later, he became a member of the Académie d'Architecture in Paris. In 2006, he was awarded an honorary fellowship RIBA from the Royal Institute of British Architects in London and received the title Cavaliere di Gran Croce della Repubblica Italiana. In 2010, the French president awarded him the Order of the Legion of Honor. In 2012, he was awarded the medal of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic and the Lithuanian Award for contribution in the field of arts and culture. The following year, he became the laureate of the Idea-Tops Awards Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport-T3 for best transcommunication space. In 2014, he received the Architizer A+ Award and the Architizer A+ Popular Choice Award in the category of Transportation-Airports. From 2000 to 2015, he led a column in the Italian news magazine L'Espresso, originally founded by Bruno Zevi and dedicated to architectural issues, and from 2014 to 2015, he collaborated with his wife Doriana in shaping the Design section in the Italian newspaper “La Repubblica.” 

As a professor, he has guest lectured at several universities, including Columbia University in New York, École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris, the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart.

He pays special attention to studying urban problems in large metropolitan areas.

Doriana Mandrelli Fuksas was born in Rome, where she graduated in the history of modern and contemporary architecture from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1979. She also studied architecture at the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris. Since 1985, she has collaborated with Massimiliano Fuksas and, since 1997, has led his studio as director. In 2002, she was awarded Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République Française. Four years later, she received the Awards for Excellence Europe from the ULI (Urban Land Institute) and the first prize at the New Trade Fair Rho-Pero in Milan. In 2012, the prestigious magazine Wallpaper* Design Awards 2012 recognized the New Congress Center Rome-Eur as the best building. In 2013, she was awarded Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République Française.