A research project exploring the relationship between the ordinary and architecture, in everyday architecture, featuring the work of sixty-one architectural offices from across Italy, accompanied by reflections of scholars and professionals.
Ordinary Beauty—by combining two seemingly antithetical values—aims to foster a generation of architects who, on a daily basis, dismantle the wall separating the ordinary from beauty, construction from architecture. A generation that begins with people and life itself, reclaiming the ordinary and elevating it to a common practice of architectural quality—first imagining a new way of living, then designing the very spaces that will house that new life. A generation that recognizes the responsibility of re- storing beauty to ordinary themes, because every day architec- ture can reveal the invisible power of beauty.
Works by a25architetti, Alberto Calderoni, Ferruccio Izzo, Luigiemanuele Amabile, Marianna Ascolese, Salvatore Pesarino, Gianluca Piccolo, (AB)NORMAL, act_romegialli,
AMAA, archiplanstudio, Archisbang,
Associates Architecture, Babau Bureau, bergmeisterwolf, Black Italy, Bongiana Architetture, Bricolo Falsarella Architetti, Brunelli Ann Minciacchi, Bunker arc, Campomarzio,
Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli, casatibuonsante architetti, Clinicaurbana, Giulia de Appolonia officina di architettura, Camilla De Camilli, DEMOGO, Didonè Comacchio Architects, Enrico Dusi, Matteo Ghidoni, ECÒL, ELASTICOSPA—Stefano Pujatti Architetti, ErranteArchitetture, EXiT, FONDAMENTA, franzosomarinelli, Furlan Beeli, Galeotti/Rizzato Architetti,
GANKO, Paolo Greppi Architetti, GrilloVasiu, Lorenzo Guzzini Architecture, Laboratorio Permanente, Enrico Molteni Architecture, MoDus Architects, MOTU, Nexus!Associati, OASI Architects, Opus Atelier, Orizzontale, Ortalli Verrier, ORTUS, Parasite 2.0, Francesca Perani Enterprise, ES-Arch Enrico Scaramellini Architetto, Piovenefabi, TUUS, Sesto Studio Architecture, studio Albori, Studio Ossidiana, STUDIOSPAZIO, studio wok, Supervoid architects, Tenet, The Modern Arch Quartet, VG13 Architects, Warehouse of Architecture and Research.
This publication comes with four different covers, randomly distributed.
Associates Architecture is an architectural office based in Brescia, founded in 2017, and directed by the Italian-South African duo composed by Nicolò Galeazzi (born 1987 in Brescia) and Martina Salvaneschi (born 1989 in Johannesburg).
