NEW GENERATIONS. OFL ARCHITECTURE

Today being the first day are two of the interviews, the second to OFL Architecture, like all well made by Itinerant Office on their research project NEW GENERATIONS. In this case OFL Architecture is a young Italian architectural studio founded in 2008 that combines research with projects at different scales.

OFL Architecture is an Italian architectural office with the intention of developing a new design methodology that integrates Architecture with parallel disciplines: Art, Sculpture, Biology, Cinema.

OFL combines architectural practice with research to find new solutions through an innovative approach to each problem by focusing on the most formal and visionary aspects of architecture.

The office has received several prizes: the honourable mention at the Hong Kong Noise barrier competition, the third prize at the Ponte’Pigneto competiton and the first prize for the Silk Road Map International Competition. OFL Architecture has international experience and has collaborated with several architects, including Fuksas, MAD, Behnisch and Calatrava.

OFL Architecture has also founded CityVision, an architectural platform with the aim of spreading contemporary architecture.

COMPONENTS: Francesco Lipari and Vanessa Todaro.

Below is the interview to Francesco Lipari by Gianpiero Venturini from Itinerant Office.

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Silk Road Map Evolution. Por OFL Architecture.

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OFL Architecture

OFL Architecture is an interdisciplinary architectural practice based in Rome. The office is focused on emergent design processes through a design methodology that integrates architecture with other disciplines, redefining the relationship of the significant contemporary city and its current urban conditions.

Francesco Lipari established OFL Architecture in 2008 and in 2009 Vanessa Todaro joined the office as associate partner.In December 2009 OFL Architecture had its first solo exhibition in Sicily: CARNE.OFL Architecture's work has been internationally exhibited and published.

FRANCESCO LIPARI is a Sicilian architect based in Rome. Recipients of several Prizes for Young Architects Francesco has been also lecturer at the MAXXI and MACRO museum and curator of several architecture projects. He's the founding principal, together with Vanessa, of OFL Architecture. He was formerly senior architect at Fuksas in Rome and Mad in Beijing. He's also founder of CityVision, a non-profit organization and innovative architecture platform with the aim of generating a dialogue between the contemporary city and its future image. Francesco's work has been internationally exhibited and published.

VANESSA TODARO graduated in architecture in 2007 at the University "La Sapienza" of Rome. She worked as project architect at Massimiliano Fuksas Studio in Rome. From 2010 she is associate partner at OFL Architecture. She has successfully completed projects such as The Hong Kong Noise Barrier, the New Headquarter Andrea Palladio, Silk Road Map Evolution, PontèPigneto and several small-scale project. She runs together with Francesco CityVision.