Course Directors
Elisabetta Bianchessi, Architect and researcher
Architect (1993, cum laude), Faculdade de Arquitectura Lisboa, Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura Madrid, Facoltà Architettura e Società Politecnico di Milano.
PhD in Architecture (2002 cum laude), Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona, Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura Madrid.
Faculty member, Facoltà Architettura e Società Politecnico di Milano in Progettazione Architettonica e del Paesaggio (dal 2002), Scientific Responsible ALAD Laboratories-Architecture&Land Ambient Design - Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione Politecnico di Milano (since 2002)
International Workshops and Field trips with Politecnico di Milano (dal 2004)
Creator and Director Master “EXTRAORDINARY LANDSCAPES – Landscape, Art, Architecture”, Politecnico di Milano and NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano (since 2006), from which came several exhibitions, conferences and the publishing series RICERCHE PAESAGGISTICHE.
Architect and landscape designer, develops her professional activity in Milan since 2004, where she founded TRANSIT (since 2007), multidisciplinary space of projects and research on landscape and environment.
Creator and Director of the NUOVO MONDO series (since 2008) in collaboration with ShinArt Factory editions. Founder and President of ATLANTIDE Milano-Barcelona (since 2008), cultural transnational association on development cooperation, environment, megalopolises.
Paolo Mestriner, architect
Architect (1993), Politecnico di Milano, after studying in Portugal.
Faculty member, Facoltà di Architettura e Società Politecnico di Milano in Progettazione Architettonica (since 1995). Former professor, Accademia di Belle Arti Santa Giulia, Brescia.
Creator and Director Master “EXTRAORDINARY LANDSCAPES – Landscape, Art, Architecture”, Politecnico di Milano and NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano (since 2006), from which came several exhibitions, conferences and the publishing series RICERCHE PAESAGGISTICHE.
Architect, develops his professional activity in Italy and abroad participating to international seminars, conferences and contests. In 2000 he founded studioazero, architecture professional studio.
Scientific committee
Maurizio Vogliazzo (Politecnico di Milano, landscape design professor)
Remo Dorigati (Politecnico di Milano, architecture professor)
Elisabetta Bianchessi (master director)
Paolo Mestriner (master director)
Luigi Spinelli (architect - architecture critic - journalist, Domus)
Massimo Minini (contemporary art dealer)
Elena Volpato (contemporary art critic – GAM foundation curator, Turin museums)
Davide Ferri (contemporary art critic –furniture museum director, Ravenna)
Franco Zagari (Università Mediterranea Reggio Calabria, landscape design professor)
Alessandro Villari (Facoltà di Architettura Università Mediterranea Reggio Calabria, landscape architect and researcher)
Antonio Rovaldi (multimedia artist)
Olivo Barbieri (photographer)
Richard Ingersoll (architecture critic, Rice University professor, Houston – Syracuse University Firenze)
Luca Molinari (architect – architecture critic – NABA Interior Design master program Director, Milan)
Alessandro Guerriero (artist, NABA president)
Marco Scotini (art critic, independent curator, NABA Visual Arts School Coordinator, Milan)
Alessio Battistella (architect)
Teaching staff
AAA atelier d'architecture autogerée (urban art lab – Parigi, Francia)
Alessandra Cianchetta - Matthias Armengaud (landscape architect - artist, Paris, France)
Alessandra Pioselli (contemporary art critic - curator, Milan, Italy)
Alessandro Villari (landscape architect, Rome - Catania, Italy)
Anna Nufrio (architect, Barcelona - Milan, Spain - Italy)
Antonio Rovaldi (artist, New York - Milan, US - Italy)
Barbara Martino (landscape architect, Cuneo, Italy)
Claudia Losi (artist, Piacenza, Italy)
Claudia Taborda (landscape architect - curator, Lisboa, Portugal)
Davide Ferri (contemporary art critic - curator, Milan, Italy)
Elena Volpato (contemporary art critic - curator, Turin, Italy)
Elisabetta Bianchessi (architect, Milan, Italy)
Fernando Quesada (architect and theatre designer, Madrid, Spain)
Francesco Bernabei (economist, Biella, Italy)
Gillermo Zuaznabar (architecture critic, Barcelona, Spain)
Giovanni Cospito (sound composer and designer, Como, Italy)
Joao Simoes (artist, New York - Lisboa, US - Portugal)
Jose Antonio Sosa (landscape architect, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)
Liliana Bonforte (architect, Pavia, Italy)
Lorenzo Brusci (artist e sound designer, Florence, Italy)
Luigi Spinelli (architect – architecture critic, Milan, Italy)
Luiza Tristao de Araujo (architecture critic, Sao Paolo - Barcelona, Brasil - Spain)
Makoto Fukuda (landscape architect, Barcelona - Tokyo (Espana - Japan)
Marco Fabbri (agronomist and botanist – Milan, Italy)
Marco Scotini (contemporary art critic - curator, Florence - Milan, Italy)
Matteo Meschiari (landscape anthropologist,, Modena, Italy)
Melania Bugiani (landscape architect, Milan, Italy)
Olivo Barbieri (photographer, Carpi, Italy)
Paz Martin Rodriguez (landscape architect, Rotterdam - Madrid, Netherlands - Spain)
Paolo Mestriner (architect, Brescia, Italy)
Ramon Parramon (contemporary art critic - researcher, Barcelona, Spain)
Richard Ingersoll (architecture critic, Houston - Florence, US - Italy)
Raffaele de Tintis (audio interaction designer, Koln - Milan, Germany - Italy)
Silvano Custoza (urban sociologist, Cottbus - Milan, Germany - Italy)
Stalker (urban art lab, Rome, Italy)
Simone Giostra (architect, New York, US)
Partners and international relations
Projects developed during the program are realized with professional studios, public and private institutions, local and national public administrations, transnational organizations, whose interests and aim share the idea of an experimental, multidisciplinary landscape and environmental project, proposed by the Master program.
Among partners and sponsors for the program we remind, among others:
Associazione Italiana Architetti Paesaggisti AIAPP - Insubria Milano, Careof – Milano, Comune Ameglia, Comune Botticino, Comune Brescia, Comune La Spezia, Comune Lerici, Comune Mazzano, Comune Nuvolera, Comune Nuvolento, Comune Paitone, Comune Rezzato, Comune Serle, Comunità Montana Valle Canonica, Parco Adamello, Cooperativa La Famiglia – Brescia, Dipartimento Architettura e Pianificazione Politecnico di Milano, Fondazione Pistoletto cittadellarte – Biella, Flos spa – Brescia, Franco Zagari Architetti – Roma, Galleria Arte Contemporanea Massimo Minini – Brescia, La Marrana parco arte ambientale Montemarcello, Levocel spa Tecnologie per l’Edilizia – Brescia, Museo dell’Arredo Contemporaneo – Ravenna, O Monografias revista Arte Architettura, COAG Colegio Arquitectos Galicia - La Coruňa Espana, Provincia Brescia, Provincia La Spezia, Parco Geominerario della Sardegna, OASI dipartimento progettazione per la città il paesaggio e il territorio Reggio Calabria, Rotary Club - Brescia, SAVTAM Aeronautica Militare - Cadimare (La Spezia), Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici e per il Paesaggio di Brescia, VIAFARINI – Milano, Vivai Ambrogio New Garden – Brescia.
All the information related to the "Extraordinary Landscapes" Master program refer to the current edition (academic year 2009-2010), whose enrolments have been closed on April 16th, 2009. For updated information please visit www.paesaggistraordinari.org.
