Margherita Petranzan is an architect and designer, who graduated in 1972 from IUAV, Venice. Founder and owner of the Petranzan-Bovo architectural studio since 1974, she deals with public, private, restoration, urban regeneration and design. From 2004 to 2016 she taught Elements of criticism of architecture. The drifts of contemporary architecture at the Polytechnic in Milan. In 2018 she is included by the Milan Triennale in a group of international advisers to report a list of eligible candidates of the VI gold medal of Italian Architecture. She founded in 1988 and still directs, with the collaboration of M. Cacciari, E. Benvenuto, G. Mazzariol, A. Natalini, V. Pastor and L. Puppi, the Architecture and Arts magazine Anfione e Zeto (AZ). Since 1992 he has been the editor of the philosophy magazine Paradosso, whose executive committee is formed by M. Cacciari, U. Curi, S. Givone, G. Marramao, C. Sini and V. Vitiello. Since 2009 she is deputy director of the series Quaderni del territorio. Architetture e luoghi del contemporaneo, Il Poligrafo. Since 2011 she is a member of the scientific committee of the French multidisciplinary magazine Oscillations. Since 2014 she has been the manager of Medioevo. Rivista di storia della filosofia medievale. She participated and organized a number of exhibitions, conferences and workshops; she authored books as Gae Aulenti, (Rizzoli, 1996; Skira, 2002), Costruzioni (Il Poligrafo, Padova, 2013) and edited together with Gianfranco Neri the book Franco Purini. La città uguale (Il Poligrafo, 2005), among others.

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Marco Cappelletti, photographer, born in 1987, lives and works between Milan and Venice.
Until 2011 he studied and worked in the field of precision mechanics.
In 2013 he graduated in photography at CFP Bauer in Milan and started to work for DSL Studio where he was later associated from 2015 until 2019.

He collaborated with some of the major contemporary artists and architects — among which Thomas Demand, Ila Beka & Louise Lemoine, OMA, Aires Mateus Arquitectos, Kengo Kuma and Associates, KAAN Architecten, Labics.
Furthermore, he collaborates with numerous cultural institutions such as Fondazione Prada, Pinault Collection, Fondazione Zegna, Architecture Academy of Mendrisio and V-A-C Foundation.

His pictures have been displayed at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Manifesta 12, the Triennale di Milano, the maXXI in Rome, the Design Museum in London, the Pavillon de l'Arsenal in Paris, the Kunsthal in Rotterdam. They are, as well, regularly published in magazines and newspapers such as Domus, Wallpaper, Casabella, Abitare, C3 Magazine, Frieze Magazine, Kommersant, Arquitectura Viva, Archistorm, L'Architecture Aujourd'hui, Living, Elle Decor, L’Officiel, ICON, ICON Design, Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, La Stampa, Le Monde, Le Figaro, The Financial Times, Wall Street Journal.

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Valter Scelsi is an architect and researcher who teaches architectural design at the University of Genoa. From 2001 to 2011 his activity was linked to Sp10, the architectural office he co-founded. From 2003 to 2007 he worked on a programme of research into the theme of contemporary life conducted by Edoardo Sanguineti. He is associate professor in Architectural and Urban Design. In 2012 and 104 he took part in the Venice Biennale of Architecture. The author of essays and critical writings on architecture, he conceived and is the editor of the series “Testi d’Architettura” published by Sagep.

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Giovanni Corbellini is full professor in the field of architectural design at the Polytechnic of Turin. Since 2008 he is member of the faculty of the international PhD Villard de Honnecourt. He participated in numerous national and international design competitions, getting some awards and special mentions. Between 1992 and 1995 he worked as an editor with the publisher Electa. His latest books are Bioreboot: The Architecture of R&Sie(n) (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009), Dr Corbellini Pills (Letteraventidue, 20160; translated in French, 2012, first Italian edition, 2010), Housing is Back in Town (LetteraVentidue, 2012), Parametrico Nostrano (Homemade Parametric, LetteraVentidue, 2013; with Cecilia Morassi), Lo spazio dicibile. Architettura e narrativa (Speakable Space, LetteraVentidue, 2016), Telling Spaces (LetteraVentidue, 2018).

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Marco Brizzi, PhD, is architecture critic and curator. He teaches Architectural Design at California State University (since 2000), Video, Media, and Architecture and Theories of Architecture at Kent State University (since 2009), both in Florence. He also teaches Theory and History of Design Communication at University of San Marino. Founder and president of Image www.image-web.org, a company whose aim is enhancing the design discourse by promoting a wider knowledge of media issues in architecture, Marco Brizzi founded and curated from 1997 to 2009 the Beyond Media festival, an event promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Municipality of Florence, and the University of Florence. He has been for 16 years director of “arch’it” www.architettura.it, online architectural magazine founded in 1995: the first and one of the most widely read Italian digital magazine on architecture. Among his other editorial activities, Marco has been editor in chief of FFF www.firenzefastforward.it, magazine devoted to design visions for the city of Florence. In 2015, his intention to share a wide collection of architecture videos and his personal experience on this specific kind of documents brought him to create the archive/magazine “The Architecture Player”. Marco Brizzi received prestigious acknowledgements. He has been appointed as a juror in competition and prize juries, in Italy and abroad. He is advisor for the Mies van der Rohe Award. As director of “arch’it” he was finalist for the Golden Medal to architectural criticism awarded by the Triennale di Milano.

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