Emilio Pizzi Team Architects

EPTA is an Italian practice of architecture, urbanism and media. Our buildings and masterplans insist on intelligent forms while inventing new possibilities for content and everyday use. Our work also pushes towards areas beyond architecture itself: areas that today have an increasing influence on architecture itself such as media, renewable energy and sustainability, technology, publishing, fashion. EPTA is led by two main partners - Prof. Arch. Emilio Pizzi and Arch. Pietro Pizzi - and its main office is based in Milan, Italy while maintaining foreign bases in Los Angeles and New York City. EPTA-designed buildings span typologies from small private and intimate spaces to large mixed use public buildings and parks. Our view toward architecture is deeply rooted within the specific culture of each site and towards a greater aim at sustainability and technology throughout the whole design process. PROF. ARCH. EMILIO PIZZI, Partner Full professor of Technology and Architecture at Politecnico di Milano where he graduated cum laude in 1974. He is the Dean of the School of Building Engineering and Architecture of Politecnico di Milano and former director of the BEST (Building Environment Science and Technology) department at the same university where he now teaches Integrated Design Processes at Master-level Students. He’s author of over 300 articles published on Italian and foreign magazines and books. Throughout the years he endured an intense career focused on a continuous research in the designs of social and high end housing, educational buildings, theatres and opera houses and hospitals. Among his works we can find the new Veterinary University in Lodi with Arch. Kengo Kuma, the University of Como, the school of Law of Trento University, the San Matteo Hospital in Pavia, the Scala Theatre in Milan for which he was nominated COMMENDATORE DELLA REPUBBLICA by former Italian President Ciampi. Recently he was the quality controller of the Italian Pavillion at EXPO 2015, Cardo and Tree of Life and designed with EMBT the COPAGRI Pavilion. He is now at work with Arch. Mario Botta on the extension of the La Scala Theatre in Milan. ARCH. PIETRO PIZZI, Partner Graduated cum Laude at Politecnico di Milano and TU Delft in the Netherlands, he became the youngest Italian Architect at the age of 23. While still in school, he approached the professional world, design the now on construction Villa R., the first sustainable and dry built house in Santa Margherita Ligure and Portofino. His work is based on a profound research on the spatial ties between man, landscape and architecture. He’s currently overseeing the international projects of the G. House (Cabarete, Dominican Republic), R. House (Watamu, Kenya), and the italian projects of the C. Chalet (Macugnaga, Italian Alps) and the Great Campus Park in Genova.