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Francesco Isidori

  • Visiting Critic

Department

Contact

  • Palazzo Santacroce, Piazza Benedetto Cairoli 6, 00186 Rome, Italy
  • fi38@cornell.edu

Francesco Isidori founded Labics in 2002 together with Maria Claudia Clemente. He heads the work of Labics, whose interest, combining the theoretical approach with applied research, extends from the interior renovation to the urban masterplan, going through the different scales and complexities of the project. His built work includes the Città del Sole (2016), MAST (2013), Obica (2003–16), and Italpromo e libardi associati (2004). Current projects include the extension of Palazzo Diamanti in Ferrara, and the Cascina Merlata masterplan and Jacaranda school in Milan.

Isidori has been a visiting critic at different universities including Università La Sapienza and Cornell University. He is regularly invited to give lectures and conduct workshops in a variety of international universities and institutions, including the Università Iuav di Venezia, Università Roma Tre, and the Università di Ferrara. He graduated from Sapienza University of Rome in 1999 and received his Ph.D. in architectural design and theory in 2006 from the same university.

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Publications

  • Roman Baroque

    Isidori, Francesco, Maria Claudia Clemente, and Aaron Betsky. 2017. Mark 70: 144–53.

  • Designers in the Prime of Life

    Isidori, Francesco, Maria Claudia Clemente, and Reed Kroloff. September 8, 2017. The New York Times: AR80.

  • Labics: MAST. Una manifattura di arti, sperimentazione, e tecnologia / A Manufactory for Arts, Experience, and Technology

    Conforti, Claudia, Francesco dal Co, Francesco Isidori, and Maria Claudia Clemente. 2013. Electa Architettura, Milano.

Classes

  • Design VII

    ARCH 4101/4102

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

  • Mixed-Use Building of the Year, ABB LEAF Award

    “Città del Sole”
    2017

  • Premio Biennale Internazionale di Architettura Barbara Cappochin

    Special jury mention for “Città del Sole”
    2017

  • Sustainable Innovation, European Architecture Awards

    “Città del Sole”
    2017

  • Grand Prix Casalgrande Padana

    Labics’s “MAST”
    2016

  • Gold Medal for Italian Architecture, Triennale di Milano

    Awarded to client Isabella Seragnoli for Labics’s “MAST”
    2015

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

  • La Città Aperta, Architecture and the Historical Space of Italy

    Labics, Italian Cultural Institute, Berlin, Germany, 2015.

  • Structures

    Labics, curated by Luca Molinari, Galleria Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy, 2015.

  • Borderline Metropolis, In Uneternal City

    Curated by Aaron Betsky, Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2008.

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