Settanta7

Settanta7 is an architecture firm founded in 2009 by Daniele Rangone and Elena Rionda, and named after the year both were born. It has eleven partners and more than 130 collaborators in five offices — Milan, Turin, Tirana, Lyon and Lisbon — and a deliberately horizontal organisation that leaves decision-making to the project teams.

The firm works on schools, housing, cultural buildings and workplaces in Italy and abroad; among its projects are the School Citadel in Castel Volturno, the Bosco della Musica in Milan for the Conservatorio G. Verdi, the engineering hub of the University of Padua and the former Scalo Ravone in Bologna. Since 2014 it has designed in BIM, a method it uses to cut economic and environmental impact.