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LECTURES
2023 IDENTITA’ dell’Architettura Italiana, Firenze,it. Contro la finzione
2023 PORTO ACADEMY VISITING MENDRISIO CH. Fondamenta
2023 ARCHISUMMIT, PORTO, PT. Fondamenta
2023 ETH, IEA Lectures Series FS23, Zurigo, CH. Fondamenta, The Economy of the Project
2023 Politecnico di Milano, Sede di Mantova, IT. The Critical Device invites Fondamenta
2023 AFTER FESTIVAL, Catania, IT. Fondamenta in conversation with Fala moderated by Moncada Rangel
2023 OSA, AAM, Mendrisio, CH. Desert Island
2023 DROPCITY, Milano, IT. Christian Kerez in conversation with Fondamenta
2023 SEU, Nanjing, China. The Economy of the Project
2022 CASABELLA FORMAZIONE, Pollenzo, IT Nuove Cantine Italiane. L’architettura del vino nell’era dell’enoturismo. Seminary curated by Roberto Bosi and Francesco dal Cò.
2022 CASABELLA FORMAZIONE, Verona, IT Undici Cantine Italiane. Architetti e territori.
2022 TRIENNALE DI MILANO Altre 15 Architetture Italiane. curator Matteo Ghidoni, Enrico Molteni and Vittorio Pizzigoni
2021 BARTLET B-pro, London, UK The Algorithmic form. curator Alessandro Bava
2021 CASABELLA FORMAZIONE Giovani architetti italiani. Fondamenta + Supervoid, curator Roberto Bosi and Francesco Dal Co.
2021 UNIGE, Genova, IT 15 Architetture Italiane. Cantina Vinicola
2021 TRACCE, Milano, IT Episode 008. Building Virtuality
2021 TEDEA, IUAV, Venice, IT Architetture. Affresco Italiano. Seminary FORM. Fondamenta + Stefano Pujatti, moderator Davide Tommaso Ferrando with the contribution of Nina Bassoli e Giovanni Corbellini.
2020 BARTLET B-pro, London, UK. Studio Mediterraneo, Alessandro Bava. Bauen
2020 PLATFORM, ADI Design Museum, Milan, IT Best Italian Architects under 40.
2020 UNIGE, Genova, IT Chair 3B Pizzigoni – Ghidoni. Miesunderstanding
2020 AAM ACCADEMIA DI ARCHITETTURA DI MENDRISO, CH. Introduction to BIM, Experimental Hill
2019 DANS LE CORRIDOR, Lausanne, CH Context, Language and Construction
2018 ETH, Zurich, CH Chair Christian Kerez. 4 Beginning.


PUBLICATIONS
2023 Identità dell’Architettura Italiana 2023. Curated by Università degli studi di Firenze
2023 ARKETIPO Magazine.Issue 168. Strutture / Structures. RP02 Experimental Hill
2023 CASABELLA Magazine. Issue 947-948. Fondamenta in Sicilia. Houses, almost unwittingly. A conversation with Francesca Ga gliardi and Federico Rossi. RP01 - RP02 - FO
2023 CASABELLA Magazine. Issue 947.
2023 PLATFORM Magazine. Issue 40. Illusionist Boutique
2023 AD Magazine. Issue 493. 20 Talenti
2023 INTERNI Magazine. Issue 03-2023. SO-LE Flagship Store
2023 ARTRIBUNE Online Magazine. 02-2023. Architettura emergente: L’esperienza di studio FONDAMENTA. Text by Silvia Lugari.
2022 AREA Magazine. Issue 185. Eighteen Italian stories
2022 PROSPECTIVES Bartlet Journal. Issue 02. The Algorithmic Form. Office Fondamenta.
2022 NUOVE CANTINE ITALIANE. TERRITORI E ARCHITETTURE. NEW ITALIAN WINERIES. TERRITORIES AND ARCHITECTURES. A PROJECT BY CASABELLA. New Italian Wineries. Territories and Architectures. A project by Casabella. Edited by Roberto Bosi & Francesca Chiorino published by Electaarchitettura.
2021 CASABELLA Issue 921. Italian Landscape, Matteo Clerici, Fondamenta, Hus. Cantina dei 5 sogni, Monforte d’Alba, Piemonte.
2020 WHAT IS A HOUSE For Digital Magazine. FONDAMENTA on La Saracena by Luigi Moretti
2020 PLATFORM Issue 28. Best Italian Architects under 40.
2020 SUPERPOSITION Issue 01. Hardcore Home. A Journey through Fondamenta Homes.
2019 WERK, BAUEN + WOHNEN. Issue 1/2 2020. Netzwerke der Junge, Das Bild einer Generation.


EXHIBITION
2023 BRESCIA, Ritratto per un futuro presente, Cinema Astoria, Brescia, IT. Curated by Associate Architecture
2022 10 ARCHITETTURE ITALIANE, Triennale di Milano, IT. Curated by Matteo Ghidoni, Enrico Molteni, Vittorio Pizzigoni.
2022 COMPLETE TRUST, Milano, IT. Curated by Alessandro Bava.
2022 NUOVE CANTINE ITALIANE. TERRITORI E ARCHITETTURA. Palazzo Balladoro, Verona, IT. A Project by Casabella curated by Roberto Bosi e Francesca Chiorino
2021 POSTACARDS FROM IMMEDIATE FUTURE, Mendrisio, CH. Curated by Accademia Mendrisio Alumni (AMA)
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Identità dell’Architettura Italiana 2023
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CASABELLA
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2022
Area
Magazine. Issue 185. Eighteen Italian stories
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2022
Pro Bauhaus
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2022
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CASABELLA
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Platform
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2020
SuperPosition
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2023
ETH, IEA Lectures Series FS23, Zurigo, CH.
Fondamenta, The Economy of the Project
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SEU, Nanjing, China.
The Economy of the Project
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2022
PROSPECTIVES, Bartlet Journal. Issue 02
The Algorithmic Form. Office Fondamenta.
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2021
CASABELLA FORMAZIONE
Giovani architetti italiani. Fondamenta + Supervoid,
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2021
TEDEA, IUAV, Venice, IT
Architetture. Affresco Italiano. Seminary FORM.
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2021
BARTLET B-pro, London, UK
The Algorithimc form
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FONDAMENTA was born in 2016, it’s run by Francesca Beatrice Gagliardi e Federico Rossi and is based in Milan, Italy.

Milan-based FONDAMENTA was founded by Francesca Gagliardi and Federico Rossi. Strong is the belief in research and experimentation applied to construction where building is the end to which architecture must strive to become itself and technology the tool used to reach this result. FONDAMENTA questions conventions and supports contradictions. Fascination for structure and freedom from dogma represent the premises for the research; Structure traces space, organizes the program and generates the building. Governance of architecture through technology is believed to be the key to the creation of an organism.Technology drives efficiency, precision and control through the entire process. In 2019 the studio completed its first new building, the Winery of Monforte d’Alba, and is currently dealing with different scale projects, starting from a domestic infrastructure masterplan in Val di Noto, Sicily. Surrealism reigns supreme. FONDAMENTA believes in synergies between professional and academic worlds. Invited to lecture and publish on several international institutions and platforms, FONDAMENTA taught as Academic Guest at ETH - Zürich in 2022-2023 with the Master design course The Economy of the Project.


Collaborators
Nicholas Compagnoni, Luca Redaelli, Francesco Riccardo Toso, Yuki Emond, Paulina Górecka, Nicolo Pelosi, Francesco Telesa, Francesco Pusterla.
dal 2016
Alberto Smaldone, Chiara Carraro, Giovanni Cesaretti, Giada Zuan, Benjamin Cassetta, Jacopo Taccari, Isabel Zink, Diana Spagnulo, Tommaso Tugnoli, Dario Biscaro, Gabriele Pagani, Marina Montresor, Caterina Spadoni, Matteo Broggini, Alessandro Zanella, Margherita Massafra.
Francesca Gagliardi was born in 1987 Milan, Italy. She studied Architecture at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Switzerland gaining her diploma in 2012. She worked for Aires Mateus in Lisbon - Portugal, Ensamble Studio - Anton Garcia Abril in Madrid - Spain, and Christian Kerez, Zurich - Switzerland. In 2016 she co-founded FONDAMENTA.
In 2022 it has been appointed Academic Guest at the ETH Zurich invited by Christian Kerez, running the Master design course: Studio Fondamenta: The Economomy of the project.

Federico Rossi was born in 1987 Como, Italy.
He studied Architecture at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Switzerland and at KTH Stockholm, Sweden gaining his diploma in 2012. In 2012 co-founded OSA, Associazione Studenti Accademia Mendrisio and in 2013 he co-published the research ATLAS How we Learn to stop Worrying and Love the Tradition.
From 2013 to 2015 worked at Christian Kerez office, Zurich, CH being responsible of international Project. From 2015 to 2019 he has been Assistent for Christian Kerez Chair, at the first year and Master at ETH, Zurich, CH. In 2016 he co-founded FONDAMENTA.
In 2018 together with H.Killer he has been responsable for the Studio PROJECT BERLIN 200.000 Housing Units for Berlin, at ETH, Zurich and based in Berlin, Germany.
In 2019, together with J.Kacani, H. Killer, G. Ledermann he has been responsible of the Chair of Christian Kerez running his personal Studio STUDIO PANORAMA: 14 Views on Contemporary Architecture at ETH, Zurich, CH.
n 2022 it has been appointed Academic Guest at the ETH Zurich invited by Christian Kerez, running the Master design course: Studio Fondamenta: The Economomy of the project.
FONDAMENTA was born in 2016, it’s run by Francesca Beatrice Gagliardi e Federico Rossi and is based in Milan, Italy.

Milan-based FONDAMENTA was founded by Francesca Gagliardi and Federico Rossi. Strong is the belief in research and experimentation applied to construction where building is the end to which architecture must strive to become itself and technology the tool used to reach this result. FONDAMENTA questions conventions and supports contradictions. Fascination for structure and freedom from dogma represent the premises for the research; Structure traces space, organizes the program and generates the building. Governance of architecture through technology is believed to be the key to the creation of an organism.Technology drives efficiency, precision and control through the entire process. In 2019 the studio completed its first new building, the Winery of Monforte d’Alba, and is currently dealing with different scale projects, starting from a domestic infrastructure masterplan in Val di Noto, Sicily. Surrealism reigns supreme. FONDAMENTA believes in synergies between professional and academic worlds.
Invited to lecture and publish on several international institutions and platforms, FONDAMENTA taught as Academic Guest at ETH - Zürich in 2022-2023 with the Master design course The Economy of the Project.


Collaborators
Nicholas Compagnoni, Luca Redaelli, Francesco Riccardo Toso, Yuki Emond, Paulina Górecka, Nicolo Pelosi, Francesco Telesa, Francesco Pusterla.
dal 2016
Alberto Smaldone, Chiara Carraro, Giovanni Cesaretti, Giada Zuan, Benjamin Cassetta, Jacopo Taccari, Isabel Zink, Diana Spagnulo, Tommaso Tugnoli, Dario Biscaro, Gabriele Pagani, Marina Montresor, Caterina Spadoni, Matteo Broggini, Alessandro Zanella, Margherita Massafra.
Francesca Gagliardi was born in 1987 Milan, Italy. She studied Architecture at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Switzerland gaining her diploma in 2012. She worked for Aires Mateus in Lisbon - Portugal, Ensamble Studio - Anton Garcia Abril in Madrid - Spain, and Christian Kerez, Zurich - Switzerland. In 2016 she co-founded FONDAMENTA.
In 2022 it has been appointed Academic Guest at the ETH Zurich invited by Christian Kerez, running the Master design course: Studio Fondamenta: The Economomy of the project.



Federico Rossi was born in 1987 Como, Italy.
He studied Architecture at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Switzerland and at KTH Stockholm, Sweden gaining his diploma in 2012. In 2012 co-founded OSA, Associazione Studenti Accademia Mendrisio and in 2013 he co-published the research ATLAS How we Learn to stop Worrying and Love the Tradition.
From 2013 to 2015 worked at Christian Kerez office, Zurich, CH being responsible of international Project. From 2015 to 2019 he has been Assistent for Christian Kerez Chair, at the first year and Master at ETH, Zurich, CH. In 2016 he co-founded FONDAMENTA.
In 2018 together with H.Killer he has been responsable for the Studio PROJECT BERLIN 200.000 Housing Units for Berlin, at ETH, Zurich and based in Berlin, Germany.
In 2019, together with J.Kacani, H. Killer, G. Ledermann he has been responsible of the Chair of Christian Kerez running his personal Studio STUDIO PANORAMA: 14 Views on Contemporary Architecture at ETH, Zurich, CH.
In 2022 it has been appointed Academic Guest at the ETH Zurich invited by Christian Kerez, running the Master design course: Studio Fondamenta: The Economomy of the project.

Federico Rossi , Francesca Beatrice Gagliardi
Nicholas Compagnoni - Alberto Smaldone - Chiara Carraro - Luca Redaelli - Tommaso Tugnoli - Francesco Telesa.
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