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Founded in 2001 by Alessandro Scandurra, with office in Milan, Scandurra Studio combines architecture, design, innovation, and visual culture. The studio’s research originates from the experience of set design and installations, which then flows into design work, ranging from architecture to interiors and product design.

The studio considers research as a crucial foundation for architectural, urban, and product design. With an international, intergenerational, and multidisciplinary team of over 60 professionals, Scandurra Studio bridges gaps through the power of creativity. The studio operates globally, specializing in architecture, urban planning, and product design, collaborating with major consulting firms. Starting in 2024, the firm also operates in the Baltic Countries.

MANIFESTO

Architecture begins when it enters people’s lives. We create the conditions for this to happen in a responsible and sustainable way. We attune ourselves to places before transforming them and anticipate what is not yet visible. We work with time as a design material, so that architecture finds its balance within broader urban, social and environmental processes. We conceive of every building as a living organism, capable of influencing behaviour, shaping relationships and redefining the way a community identifies itself within space. The value of architecture is measured by what it enables to happen.

METHOD

The studio has always worked across various project areas, from products to cities. The common approach to all scales of intervention is based on a method that focuses on recovering the memory and culture of the project, drawing from suggestions of the past. It follows tailored attention to detail, transforming these references into concrete responses to current needs, and a design process always attentive to the impacts and human experience within the environment-space. Our method combines research and construction and systematizes interdisciplinary.

BACKSTAGE

Backstage is the research and development department of Scandurra Studio, established to analyze contemporary environmental, social, and technological transformations and translate them into innovative design models for urban and living spaces. Building on two decades of experience, it brings together architects, researchers, and external partners in applied research across three main areas: design methodologies, systems and materials, and social models.

Functioning as a critical infrastructure integrated into the studio’s practice, Backstage investigates emerging tools, sustainable construction solutions, and new forms of inhabiting space. Its interdisciplinary and comparative approach generates concrete outputs, with the goal of advancing design thinking and actively contributing to the cultural discourse on contemporary architecture.