Duilio Forte

Duilio Forte is an Italian-Swedish artist and architect born in Milan in 1967, who graduated from the Politecnico di Milano and founded AtelierFORTE in 1998. His work treats architecture as the scenography of everyday life, built mainly in wood and iron, and draws on Norse mythology and on the contrast between Nordic simplicity and Italian culture.

In 2009 he launched the ArkiZoic movement, centred on the idea of a vital breath animating matter. The recurring figure is Sleipnir, Odin’s eight-legged horse, realised as large timber structures at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008 and 2010 and in installations across Europe. Recent projects include the wooden structure for Anotherview at 5VIE during Milan Design Week 2025, conceived as the belly of a whale, and the Lupus in Fabula series; he has taught at NABA in Milan since 2009.