CINO ZUCCHI was born in Milano in 1955; he graduated at M.I.T. in 1978 and at the Politecnico di Milano in 1979, where he is currently Chair Professor of Architectural and Urban Design. He has taught architecture at many international seminars and has been visiting professor at Syracuse University and at ETH in Zürich. He is the author of the books L'architettura dei cortili milanesi 1535-1706, Asnago e Vender. Architetture e progetti 1925-1970, and is editor of the book Bau-Kunst-Bau. He participated in the organization and exposition design of the XV, XVI, XVIII and XIX Triennale, and his work has been shown at the 6th and 8th Venice Biennale.
Together with CZA, of which he is the principal architect, he designed and realized many industrial, commercial, residential and public buildings, a number of projects for public spaces, master plans and renewals of industrial and historical areas. The urban design of the former Junghans factory site in Venice was awarded a mention in the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2001 and in the Medaglia d’oro all’architettura Italiana 1995-2003 e 2004-2006, the Weinerberger Brick Award 2004 and won the Piranesi Award 2001, the “Comune di Venezia” Architecture Award 2005 and the Ecola Award 2008 for the category “Black Bread Architecture”. Recent works include a large master plan for the Keski Pasila area in Helsinki, residential and office buildings for the former Alfa Romeo-Portello area in Milano, the extension and renovation of the Turin Car Museum, the Salewa Headquarters in Bozen and the Trilogia Navile residential buildings in Bologna. The studio’s projects have been published in books and magazines worldwide.
GAIA REDAELLI is architect by Architectural Faculty of the Polytechnic of Milan (1995) and has got a PHD degree in Architectural and Urban Design in 2003. She is professor of Architectural Project in the first Architectural Faculty of the Polytechnic of Milan, where she develops didactic activity and research on architecture and landscape, taking part in international seminaries and lectures.
She collaborates with architectural magazines and has published “I paesaggi invisibili. Tre conversazioni portoghesi: João Luis Carrillo da Graça, Álvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto de Moura” (Milán, 2005) which was the result of her doctoral thesis.
In 1997 she opens her professional office – SRS studio redaelli speranza architetti associati - in Milan and in Seville since 2003, where she develops and built projects of architecture and public spaces, taking part in international competitions and receiving several prizes, published in magazine like Casabella, Abitare, Area, Pasaje. Since 2003 she lives and works among Milan, Seville and Cordoba, where she is the director of the Contemporary Architecture Foundation as like of the collection “Architectural Itineraries”.