PCA International
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Massimo Pica Ciamarra

www.wikipedia.org     1971/2007 Professor of Architectural Design – UniNA / Federico II; 1977 Committee 30-Architecture / Council of Tall Building and Urban Habitat, Lehigh University-USA / Italian speaker at 2nd World Congress “2001-Urban Spaces for Life and Work” Paris/UNESCO; one of the founders of the Institute for the dissemination and enhancement of scientific culture; 1993/94 in “Ecoville-Europe”, Ministère de l’Equipement / Ministère de l’Environnement, Paris-La Villette; 1997/2011 v. National President IN/Arch / then in the “Committee of Sages”; since 2012 v.President “Italian Foundation for Bioarchitecture and Sustainable Environmental Anthropisation”; President of the Scientific Committees “Bioarchitettura®”, IN/Arch, Biennale di Architettura Pisa 2017; professor I.A.A. International Academy of Architecture; 1997 President O.I.A.- Observatoire International de l’Architecture / Paris- promoter of the project of the “Directive européenne sur l’architecture et le cadre de vie”; 2018 promoter “Civilizing the Urban – ETS”

www.lecarrebleu.eu           Since 2006 he has directed ‘Le Carré Bleu, feuille internationale d’architecture’, which launched the ‘Fragments-Symbiose’ manifesto and the ‘Appel à idées – une idée pour chaque ville’ under UNESCO patronage; in 2008 the ‘Déclaration des Devoirs de l’Homme’ in relation to habitat; in 2011 -with BioA and IN/Arch- “Literacy in ecology and the quality of architecture”; in 2014 “Re-civiliser l’urbain”; in 2016 “Vers un nouveau cycle en architecture”; in 2017 “OrbiTecture”; in 2023 it proposes the “Code européen de conception vistant la qualitè des cadre de vie”.

www.pcaint.eu       since 1985 various monographs, most recently A Lima, From urban fragments to ecological systems – The Architecture of Pica Ciamarra Associati, Edition Axel Menges, Stuttgart-London 2019; Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi, Massimo Pica Ciamarra, the omnivorous in the series ‘Architetti d’Italia’, Artribune 2017

between books:           Sette Conversioni, CivETS 2022; Poetica del frammento e conversione ecologica, CivETS 2021; verso il Codice della Progettazione, CivETS 2019; Civilizzare l’urbano, CB 2018; Integrare / il progetto sul finire dell’età della separazione, Jaca Book 2010;  Etimo: costruire secondo principi / architettura e trasformazione dello spazio abitato, Liguori 2004; Interazioni / principi e metodi della progettazione architettonica, Clean 1997; La cultura del progetto / notizie-nozioni-azioni, Graffiti 1996; Qualità e concezione del progetto, Officina 1994; Città futura (a cura) / Alternative per il prossimo millennio, Cuen 1988;  Architettura e dimensione urbana, Ceec 1977

among the    34 realisations in 9 different regions in the Census of Italian Architecture from 1945 to the present day – Ministry of Culture. Among the best-known: Officine Angus (IN/Arch Prize 1969); Arcavacata Multipurpose Building of the University of Calabria (Prizes: A.I.P. 1973; Calabria Region 2007); Departments of Pharmacy (Gold Medal University of Messina); Aula del Quadrifoglio (Seal University of Basilicata 1987); Istituto Motori CNR + Piazza di Fuorigrotta, Naples (finalist International Award for Innovative Technology in Architecture, Sidney 1988; Aragonese Prize 1991); Teuco/Guzzini Headquarters, Recanati (Premio Architettura Tecnologia Ambiente – ENEA/SAIE 1998); Biblioteca Sangiorgio, Pistoia (Special Mention 2017 – Federation of UNESCO Clubs and Centres); Città della Scienza (Trophées “Sommet de la Terre et Bâtiment”; finalist Triennale di Milano, Medaglia d’Oro all’Architettura italiana 2003; Dedalo Minosse Prize 2004); Corporea, Museum of the Human Body

Monographic exhibitions      since 1987, Pica Ciamarra Associati – Architecture for places in Rome / Paris / Dublin / Bruges / Rio de Janeiro / Curitiba / São Paulo / Brasilia / Lanciano / Seville / Aix en Provence / Pisa / Cimitile; 2009, “Pica Ciamarra Associati, sustainable architecture”, Seville; 2011; ” La qualité environnementale, une exigence source de créativité – Pica Ciamarra Associati “, Aix-en-Provence; since 2013, Pica Ciamarra Associati – Utopia / Permanent Reality at MAMT / Mediterranean Museum of Arts, Music and Traditions; 2014 Pisa Pica Ciamarra Associati: A Laboratory for the City, The River Speaks of Architecture; since 2016 in the MUVA / Virtual Museum of Architecture: Pica Ciamarra Associates – Virtual Journey through 50 years of theory and practice; 2018, Civilising the Urban – Architecture by Pica Ciamarra Associates

prizes    1969 IN/Arch Campania Prize; 2004 Valentine’s Gold Award / Architecture; 2010 SiebenArchi; 2014 International Prize for Architecture ‘Sebetia-Ter’ with medal of the President of the Republic; 2015 Andel / The Culture of the City; 2016 OAPPC-NA Foundation / Lifetime Achievement Award; 2017 Italian Institute for the Future Award / Centre of Near Space; 2017 “Mileto/Filocamo” Award for Scientific Research and Innovation; 2018 Culture Award – Cenacolo of Culture and Science; “Mediterranean Award – Architecture” – Special Edition 2018; 2021 SieìbenArchi, “Golden Pencil”; 2021 IN/Arch Campania, Lifetime Achievement Award

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IAA – International Academy of Architecture: M.Pica Ciamarra