Ordinary and Extraordinary. The Experience of Parrish Complex in Dresano

Authors

• Giovanni Multari Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

  Architect since 1991, Ph.D. in Urban Design since 1997 and Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture of the University of Naples Federico II since 2019. In 1995, with architect Vincenzo Corvino, he established corvino+multari, with headquarter in Naples and offices in Milan. He applied for several international competitions, followed by realization of housing, work spaces and open public spaces requalification. In 2005 the magazine Ventre dedicated his first monographic number of Ventre Zoom series to their work, publishing the monograph “Corvino+Multari 1995-2005”. In 2006, with the Restoration project for Pirelli Skyscraper inMilan, Corvino+Multari wins the Special Award for Restoration at the Gold Medal Competition for Italian Architecture called by  the Triennale of Milan, the Aluminium Renovation Award 2007 (Italy) and the European Aluminium Renovation Award 2007. In 2006 he also participated to the 10th International Architecture Exhibition at the Biennale of Venice with the project for the new Station in Castellammare di Stabia.

  His current research investigates the existing, of different nature and scale, to define possible places and new strategies for the project, from Castel Volturno, Rosarno, to Naples. He has held conferences in Italy (Milan, Rome, Naples, Cosenza, Turin, Florence, Palermo) and abroad (Graz, Krakow, Warsaw, Mendrisio, Brussels, Paris, Berlin, London, New York); projects and creations have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions and published in national and international architecture magazines such as Casabella, Abitare, Domus, Area, d'A, the plan, Concept and World Architecture. Among his latest publications: Italian Foreign Architecture (Rome: Tab Edizioni, 2022), Architettura Alto Adige (Rome: Tab Edizioni, 2020); La grande dimensione in architettura. Il Centro Direzionale di Napoli, Aracne (Rome: Aracne, 2015).