Inspirations.  

String Theory: Architecture of Connections

This speculative project starts with the idea that space is not defined by volume, but by connectio...

The painted house

These experimental structures have been created by combining design processes of architecture and gr...

Casa Sperimentale

One of the most visionary built experiments of 20th century architecture was created through the per...

colors

colors

Last and First Men

The first and last movie by iconic Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (1969 - 2018). With his mu...

el cairel II

turistic housing complex buit in reinforced concret

No.5 Warehouse Museum of Fossil

A space in the headquarter of a stone manufacturer in China. With its monochromatic walls, oddly sla...

Pulp architecture

The need to stand out in a hyper-commercialized market results in remarkable examples of contemporar...

Dovecote-Granary

Tiago Do Vale took on the admirable task of restoring two maize granaries as examples for disappeari...

Core Agora

These shop pavillions in an area of a hotel complex in Greece, designed by Not a Number Architects, ...

Sonata

Sonata, a multi-housing project in Merida, Mexico, was designed by Mexican practice Arkham. Partly e...

K11 Musea

Westworld meets Surrealism in the interior design of K11 Musea, a new shopping mall in Hong Kong, a ...

Lotus Zen House

The Lotus Zen House hotel is located in Mount Jiuhua, an important Buddhist site in China. Hong Kong...

Laurel Hills Residence

A beautiful example of a contemporary Californian residence, designed by Assembledge architects. The...

House 33

House No 33 by Uemori Masaaki and Uemori Kokutou: A fantastic example on how contemporary architectu...

Architectural sculptures

Architectural sculptures by K. Kegelmann as part of "Future City" curated by Mario Gagliardi at the ...

Marqueterie

A contemporary marqueterie effect for a combined side table/console with hidden drawers. © Mario Ga...

The gilded castle

Besides castle Neuschwanstein in Bavaria, Peles is the most remarkable turn-of-the-century castle i...

The Heavy Palace

The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest was built in the nineteen-eighties after a design by Anca ...

Reactive Space

Inspired by Plato´s allegory of the cave, this is an architectural study for spaces reacting to its...

Calatrava : Sculptures

Sculptures by architect Santiago Calatrava.

PIXelated Cube

experiment idea materialmatters architecture

CAMOUFLAGE ARCHITECTURE

My thesis gallery about camouflage and architecture

The Venice Pavillon

The Venice Pavillon interprets the history of Venice as a point of contact between West and East. Sh...

Collaborative City Planning

The result of the Zero Carbon project: a collaborative scale model of the prototype site, close to t...

Structures

Architectural studies, Mario Gagliardi 2002-2004.

Dreaming of Skyscrapers

Mario Gagliardi 2006.

Alessandro Mendini 1931-2019

For Alchimia, design is a cyle: everything that will have to happen has already happened, and the im...

Terror Architecture -18th Century Prisons

In the late 1770s, there was a particular interest in the development of not only scientific and rhe...

Kunio Makaewa

Kunio Maekawa was a master of Japanese modernist architecture. He learned under Le Corbusier and was...

Digital Biology

Interior studies for public indoor spaces merging digital and biological environments. Wall modules ...

Fashion, Food, Transport

FUTURE CITY premiered at Vienna Art Week 2018 on November 20, 2018, at MAK Museum of Applied Arts in...

Architecture

Designed by Ted Wells. Architecture. Corten steel and glass.

Carlo Scarpa

jardin des sculptures. C Scarpa

The loft bar

Concept project of loft bar.

Mechanical Suprematist

Experience interesting architectural compositions being created as you look around. This generator w...

Immersive sketch

Travel through an animated architectural sketch (move mouse to look around): http://mariogagliardi.c...

Charles Tassin

Interior designer Charles Tassin has developed a very personal approach to decoration. Merging the s...

penccil: This was 2017

The penccil year in review is a project selection for 2017, this year curated by Mario Gagliardi. Se...

serpentine 2017

exhibition, schauspiel köln, cologne. steelobjects, ceramic reliefs.

BS1

temporary accessible sculpture.

BKM/Barozzi/Veiga

The extension of the Villa Planta, which will accommodate the Bündner Kunstmuseum, is an exercise o...

Fallingwater

Modernist Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright

Green Architecture…. Is it blessing or curse!!

GREEN ARCHITECTURE….IT IS GOOD FOR THE NATURAL WORLD OR MAYBE IT WILL BE A MESS OF THE TREES AND P...

Library

A library in the center of Moscow, study project.

Franz Kline

Around 1950, Franz Kline radically simplified painting: “Instead of making a sign you can read, yo...

Lattice

Architectural structures. Mario Gagliardi 2006

Kenzo Tange

Kenzo Tange was born September 4, 1913 in Osaka, Japan. After graduating from the University of Toky...

Organic Public

Contemporary cities are in need of public spaces which work better for their citizens. This proposal...

Design for Disaster

"A disaster zone where everything is lost offers the perfect opportunity for us to take a fresh look...

Shared Space

To develop better urban strategies and futures for communities in desert climates, Mario Gagliardi w...

A Flat Named Desire

An inspirational collection of interior objects.

Food Architecture

Food dal cucchiaio al mondo: Works of artists and architects who deal with the global political, soc...

Sky Walk

The Dolní Morava tower Sky Walk by Zdenek Franek is a conceptual building, and it offers visitors ...

Pillars

Consisting of connected bricks whose relative position can be altered by changing underlying paramet...

Microscopes of utopia

This are some of landscapes spaces of nowhere with spaces inside

Brazil Modernism

20th century architecture in Brazil, including work by Lina Bo Bardi, Lúcio Costa, Affonso Reidy, O...

Carlo Scarpa: Sketch and Work

There is hardly another architect of the 20th century in whose work the progression from sketch to c...

Peter Zumthor: Thinking Architecture

A selection of remarkable work by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor.

The Bauhaus Revolution

The Bauhaus was the most influential design school of the 20th century. See more in the new magazin...

Struth: Nature & Politics

Thomas Struth´s work shows us highly complex equipment, structures and constructions. His pictures ...

In Orbit

"When I look at these complex layers of translucent lines and spheres, I am reminded of models of th...

Tom Ngo

"Common sense and conventional practice prohibits the evolution of architecture. Through reproducing...

Future Architecture

Future Architecture Platform is a European program which promotes talents in architecture. Future A...

Superstudio, Superproduction, Superconsumption

Superarchitecture is the architecture of superproduction, of superconsumption, of superinduction to ...

Heartbeat, Heartseat

Heartbeat consists of a massive heart glowing to the rhythm of a strong, deep and low frequency hear...

Swarm fabrication: Kokkugia / Roland Snooks

We have a fascination with the impact of new technologies on architecture and construction. We are f...

Spatial Clusters

"Refined nature consists of evolved technology such as robotics, artificial intelligence, cybernetic...

Une Cité Industrielle by Tony Garnier

Tony Garnier designed the plans of an ideal city during his stay at the Villa Médicis from 1899 to ...

The Glass House

"This house was Philip Johnson's autobiography—all of his interests were visible, and all of his a...