PRACTICE
​Gianni Cinquegrana Architects investigates the multiple and intrinsic relationships between architecture and its void, meditating through the meaning of the words silence and aesthetics that since the past but especially in contemporary practice represent the keys to a deeper understanding of “being” architecture.

The practice is committed to the successful delivery of ambitious and characterful schemes and approach each project with care and rigour. We work using different methods of enquiry and representation to communicate ideas, and actively follow these through to construction with a thorough understanding of materials and methods of building. We aim to produce work of the highest quality and demonstrate the value of good, careful design on projects relating to architecture, interiors and furniture.

The practice’s work is characterised by meticulous attention to the concept and details of every project, and a relentless focus on refining design ideas to arrive at a solution which is architecturally, socially, and intellectually coherent.

Gianni Cinquegrana is registered architect with the ARB in UK, and attestation REG in Switzerland and Ordine degli Architetti in Italy. He is also part of the commission for public works of the order of architects of Naples and of the scientific group of FOAN (foundation of the order of architects of Naples)

BIOGRAPHY
Registered architect since 2007, PhD in Architectural and Urban Planning in 2010, achieved at the SUN University of Naples and at ETSAB university of Barcelona. He has maintained teaching activities in university 2007-2010, bringing forward individual architectural research through international competitions from 2007 to 2020. His youth training related to art school, leads him to reflect on the many relationships between architecture and art, so the parallels in art become an expression of a naive dialogue that began in 1998. In 2010 he writes Estetica del Silenzio: indagine dei vuoti in architettura (Aesthetics of Silence: research of voids in architecture) – investigating the concept of intense emptiness as a notion of silence.

Between 2007 and 2012 Gianni lived and worked in Italy, Spain and Portugal where he gained experience working for different international studios including: Archicubik Studio (Barcelona) and Proap Studio (Lisbon) where he was involved om the first stages of the design process. For the last twelve years Gianni has been working as an architect in UK using his considerable experience on a diverse range of project types and scales including commercial, retail, residential, education and urban master-planning.

He was recognised for his excellent architecture design with a honourable mention as Young Italian Architect in 2010 and also achieved several awards.

The subject of scientific research that he developed in the last few 15 years can be named in a more generic form as Architecture, Urbanism and Society. An investigation applicable to the urban territory that embrace a great variety of interdisciplinary subjects such as sociology, psychology, engineering, nature and art.