Inspirations.  

Alpina

Chair "Alpina" designed by Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.

Pianeti

Rug set "Pianeti", designed by Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa. Handcrafted in 100% New Zealand M...

Gran Turismo

Lounge chair Gran Turismo, Design Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.

String Theory: Architecture of Connections

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

Printed textures

3D printing has become a viable production method enabling the rapid production of small and medium-...

The painted house

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

Candy Morandi

Giorgio Morandi's ceramic vessels have been the inspiration for this project. Morandi´s objects are...

Casa Sperimentale

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

SCARABOOK

SCARABOOK is the combination of Scarabottolo and the English word book (but perhaps we ought to say ...

My calendar

I start to make it in 2000, the year in which the future has passed, at the request of Adriano Mei G...

71 views of the magic mountain

In the days of the first lockdown I started making these drawings, remotely inspired by Hokusai´s "...

on paper books and e-books

these drawings were made thinking about what is happening to the books through various titles of cla...

Haribo Centennial

Haribo, the company behind the bear-shaped fruit-flavored jelly candy from Germany, is 100 years old...

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...

Spring 2020 - Project 2 - MassArt

A school project in which we had to redesign a small triangle shape park near Harvard Square in Camb...

Architectural sculptures

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

Objects of Desire

»Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today« 28.09.2019 – 19.01.2020 at Vitra Design Museum Surrealis...

Marqueterie

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

Chromaglass

Chromaglass is a cocktail glass displaying its ingredients through colors. An inner insulating conta...

Nature morte/Nature vivante

Until recently, artists, designers and architects were used to working with inert, non-living materi...

The gilded castle

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

Upcycled

Furniture design from upcycled materials: Stools from old rubber tyres, oil barrels and washing mach...

The Heavy Palace

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

chair_ONE

chair_ONE is the best known design by Konstantin Grcic, a German furniture designer whose work is eq...

Cazal

Glasses by German manufacturer Cazal were considered a sought-after accessory in New York's hip-hop ...

Reactive Space

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

Omnidirectional microphone

Design for an omnidirectional microphone, recording sound from all spatial directions. Recorded soun...

Speaker

A sculptural speaker rendered with GLSL signed distance functions. (C) Mario Gagliardi 2018

Rudolf Belling

Rudolf Belling was sculptor, designer, architect and stage designer. In 1908, he founded a studio fo...

Calatrava : Sculptures

Sculptures by architect Santiago Calatrava.

Streampal

Streampal is a lifestream robot for Youtubers, Instagrammers and others who want to record passages ...

PIXelated Cube

experiment idea materialmatters architecture

CAMOUFLAGE ARCHITECTURE

My thesis gallery about camouflage and architecture

The e-scooter Boom

The German Ministry of Transport announced that it will legalize e-scooters as road vehicles. All Ge...

Jonathan Ive leaves Apple

On June 28, Apple´s chief designer Jonathan Ive (born 1967) announced that he would leave Apple lat...

Abstract Form

Click 4 times on the canvas and watch how an abstract form is generated: https://www.mariogagliardi....

Essential Water

In many regions of the planet, water is increasingly becoming rare. Our understanding of water, refl...

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...

Generative Botany

An early app for generative graphics, realized in 2000 in the (now deprecated) Adobe Flash. To use t...

Cognition

This experiment looks at the process of human cognition. Letters get progressively filled with color...

Creative Changemakers & Future City

Promotional sites for the initiative Creative Changemakers and the event Future City. (C) 2018 MGD M...

The Persona Project

Social media are powerful because humans use the same parts of the brain to interact with machines a...

Structures

Architectural studies, Mario Gagliardi 2002-2004.

Dreaming of Skyscrapers

Mario Gagliardi 2006.

Blacker Box

Blacker Box is a design expression for an Intelligent Speaker. (C) Mario Gagliardi Design 2017

Stories of the Future

A random generator for news headlines of the future. Every 9 seconds, a new story is generated.

Oilspill, Carpet, Camouflage

Pattern generators for interesting surface patterns and backgrounds. Click "Start" to start, "Change...

Alessandro Mendini 1931-2019

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

VAW

In late 2018, we proposed a strategic repositioning of Vienna Art Week. We suggested a fundamental...

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...

Typography

Collection of beautiful typography and graphic design.

Digital Biology

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

Podchain

Podchain is an integrated design concept for on-demand autonomous transport. To optimize kinetic ene...

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

WRECK--Regeneration Experiment of Wasted Daily-use Ceramics from Chaozhou, China

WRECK, the destruction of decorum, the ruin of culture. BENTU went deep into daily-use ceramics indu...

Time

How do you express time without numbers or watch hands? Clocks abstract time into a measurable, un...