PIUARCH

Piuarch is a Milan-based architecture and urban planning firm founded in 1996 by Francesco Fresa, Germán Fuenmayor, Gino Garbellini and Monica Tricario, later joined by partners Luca Lazzerotti, Mauro Mandelli, Gianni Mollo and Miguel Pallares. Fifty people work from a former warehouse in the Brera district, in open spaces where every phase of a project is shared.

Thirty years of activity span office buildings, retail and hospitality, housing, urban regeneration and masterplans, from the Gucci Hub and the Dolce&Gabbana headquarters to the Fendi factory, the Human Technopole campus at MIND and the Snam headquarters in Milan. Each intervention starts from the urban, socio-historical and cultural context, with comfort, well-being and sustainability treated as structural concerns.