Cino Zucchi has contributed to the exposure of the 13th Biennale in Venice with his "copycat". Responding to the event's theme of "Common Ground", develops a sequence of objects connected by subtle variations so porpagando imitation and innovation.

The study Cino Zucchi Architetti is constantly seeking solutions for contemporary living space in the context-sensitive and changing European landscape.

Work on the study has been widely exhibited and published in magazines both in Italy and abroad. The study was designed and conducted in many industrial buildings, residential and public, public spaces, renovation plans and master plans for agriculture, industry and history, has participated in numerous national and international competitions, and is active in the field of interior and exhibition design.

Installation of Cino Zucchi embodies the idea that formal cultures contagious spread through processes that combine innovation and imitation.

Creating sequences of objects united by subtle variations on a common theme. Nine metal cabinets are grouped around a central space paved with cobblestones "steel".

Each sample object or image related to this principle: entomological boxes, bread Rajasthan rolling pins, pictures of Milan after WWII Giovanna Silva facades, models of submarines, photos of Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek people dress similarly, souvenir buildings, a work by Charlie Roberts, architectural models work by Cino Zucchi.

Similarity, instead of "originality", is what allows the dialogue between human beings, and what shapes urban environments we recognize as the backdrop to our lives.

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Cino Zucchi was born in Milano in 1955. He graduated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) in 1978 and at the Politecnico di Milano in 1979, where he is currently Chair Professor of Architectural and Urban Design and member of the teaching board of the Doctorate (Ph.D.) at the Faculty of Architecture - Campus Leonardo of the Politecnico di Milano.

He has been teaching architecture in many international seminars (Berlin 1980, Pavia 1983, Mantova 1985 and 1988, Napoli 1989, 1990 and 1991, Rotterdam 1994, Pisa 1995, Barcelona 1995 and 2000, Finale Ligure 1996, Spalato 1997, Ghent 1999, Darmstadt 2000 Zagabria 2001, Hamburg 2003, Singapore 2004) and has been visiting professor at the Syracuse University in Florence in 1989 and 1990 and at the ETH in Zürich in 1997 and 1998.

His essays and writings appeared in the magazines "Domus", "Lotus international", "Casabella", "Design Book Review", "Arch+", “Intersezioni”, “Bau” and in "Qa”, of which he has been editor from 1989 to 1885. He is in the Forum of the architectural magazine “Lotus international” since 1996. He is the author of the books L'architettura dei cortili milanesi 1535-1706 published by Electa in 1989, Asnago e Vender. L'astrazione quotidiana-architetture e progetti 1925-1970 (with F. Cadeo e M. Lattuada), published by Skira in 1999, and is editor of the book Bau-Kunst-Bau published by Clean in 1994.

With the Zucchi Architetti studio, of which he is the principal, he has designed and realized many industrial, residential and public buildings, a number of projects for public spaces (XIX Triennale outdoor exibition in Piazza Cadorna, Milano, squares in Cerea, Arzignano, Milano Gratosoglio, San Donà di Piave); renewal of agricultural, industrial and historical areas

He has participated to many national and international competitions (Opera in Paris, Lützowplatz in Berlin, Garibaldi-Repubblica area in Milano, urban escalators in S.Marino and Bergamo, Borghetto Flaminio in Rome, Tarello park in Brescia, church in Foligno-2nd prize...

The urban renewal for the former-Junghans factory in the Venice has been awarded mentions at the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Fundaciò Mies van der Rohe Award - Barcelona 2001, at the Medaglia d’oro dell’Architettura Italiana 1995-2003, 2004-2006 at the Brick Award 2004 and awarded the Piranesi Award 2001, the “Comune di Venezia“ Architecture Award 2005 and the ECOLA Award 2008, in the category "Black Bread Architecture".

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Published on: September 28, 2012
Cite: ""COPYCAT", Empatia e invidia come generatori di forma, 2012 by CINO ZUCCHI" METALOCUS. Accessed
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