The quality of our life is strongly influenced by the architecture quality in which we live and that surrounds us. Our design is mainly based on the relationship between man and environment, and it’s represented by an architecture in which individual well-being and environmental sustainability are closely related.
LUCA CURCI ARCHITECTS deals with architecture design, from urban planning to interior design, bioclimatic planning and green building, consolidations and restructuring, structural calculation, architecture and monumental restoration, urban design, leisure/sport spaces planning, design of luxury hotels, spa, tourist resort, furniture, interior and industrial design.
The studio analyzes the urban planning‘s main themes, researching and planning about homes (determinating the proportion and the type of homes that will be built and the proportion that will be targeted for home ownership versus rental), about commercial, industrial and economical structures (identifing the best places within a community for locating factories, shopping areas, and offices), about recreational places (planning for parks, open space, community facilities and community centers), about transportation facilities (studing transportation systems to determine when additional transportation facilities are needed, where they should be built, and the mix of transportation options that should be available), about the management of provisions, wastes and supply of energy, and about community development (organizing and community development, seeking to increase social justice, reduce poverty, and build vital and thriving underresourced communities).
LUCA CURCI ARCHITECTS‘ works have been published in many international magazines, like Landscape Middle East, The Huffington Post International, Designboom, Inhabitat, Tall Buildings Magazine, and many others.
Luca Curci (Bari, 1975) is an Italian artist, architect and art designer, graduated in Architecture at the University of Camerino, Italy. In 2006 he founded the architecture firm LUCA CURCI ARCHITECTS which has realized several projects of residential buildings, private houses, villas, restaurants and stores. In 2007 he realized the detailed design of a footbridge built on the river Seine in Paris, and in 2011 he designed and realized different Apple stores in Italy. In 2012 he designed the “Tipico Italiano Fast Food Restaurant” European franchising and “Five Senses design hotel”, an exclusive five-room hotel, based on the five senses’ theme. With the projects “Organic Cities” of 2013, “Desert Cities” of 2014 and “Vertical City” of 2015, designed for the Middle East Area, he deals with the theme of environmental planning and architecture sustainability.
Starting from 2015 he teaches Urban Planning and Interior Design at the Bahcesehir University (BAU) in the department of Rome.
In 2017 he founds the contemporary art gallery Galerie 222, in the Principality of Monaco, including the realisation of the interior design. In December 2017 he founds THE ROOM – Contemporary Art Space in the heart of Venice, very close to Piazza San Marco, as Director of the gallery.
His artistic research is based on the concept of hybridization, analyzed through video-art, performing art and virtual art. Some of his most important works are: “e-human” video, presented at Centre Pompidou of Paris in 2002; “still.alone” video, realized in 2004 in collaboration with 27 artists from Canada, USA, Argentine, Brazil, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Indonesia; the video trilogy “Impossible” realized between 2004 – 2006 and presented at CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona) and NCCA (The National Centre for Contemporary Art in Moscow); “The Empire of R-evolution” video, presented at the 54th Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion.
In 2001 he founded ITSLIQUID, a communication platform with over 250.000 subscribers, dedicated to art, architecture and design, that has organized more than 250 events all around the world, involving more than 5.000 artists, in more than 60 international venues.
