Massimiliano Fuksas / ArchiFest 2009

Massimiliano Fuksas studied architecture in Rome at “La Sapienza” University. In 1967, he established his own studio in Rome, followed by a second one in Paris in 1989. He opened an office in Vienna in 1993, and in Frankfurt in 2002, active until 2001 and 2009. Since 2008 he has also had an office in Shenzhen, China. For many years he has been devoting special attention to urban problems in large metropolitan areas. From 1998 to 2000, he was Director of the VII Biennial of Architecture in Venice “Less Aesthetics, More Ethics”. He has been a Visiting Professor at several universities, such as the École Speciale d’Architecture in Paris, the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Vienna, the Staadtliche Akademia des Bildenden Kunste in Stoccarda, and Columbia University in New York. Since 2000, he has been the author of the architectural column founded by Bruno Zevi in the weekly magazine L’Espresso. Fuksas works and lives between Rome and Paris.