Contributors

Alessandro Scandurra was born in 1968 and graduated from the Politecnico di Milano with a thesis on the urban regeneration of an area on the outskirts of Milan.
He founded Scandurra Studio Architettura – SSA in Milan in 2001. He has served as artistic director for Italian design firms, was scientific director of the Portaluppi Foundation in Milan, and curator of the Palladio Museum in Vicenza. His work has earned him several nominations and honourable mentions for awards such as the Gold Medal for Italian Architecture, the Mies van der Rohe Award and the Compasso d’Oro.
On the occasion of Expo Milano 2015, he won the competition organised by the City Council for the construction of the Expo Gate. He has also taken part in several editions of the Venice Architecture Biennale and in numerous exhibitions at the Triennale di Milano. For many years, he has been teaching at architecture schools and universities, including NABA, the Politecnico di Milano and SUPSI in Mendrisio.
He is the author of the book *Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Umberto Riva, Carlo Scarpa and the Origin of Things*. He has taught at the Politecnico di Milano and is currently a visiting professor at SUPSI in Switzerland.

Designer and strategic consultant in the fields of corporate identity, territorial branding, brand identity, exhibition design and product design. A graduate of ISIA Urbino, he is the founder of the practice Bcpt/Comodo, where he applies an ethnographic approach to design, specialising in projects of territorial and community regeneration. Over the course of his career he has collaborated with numerous companies and institutions, including Mondadori, Apple Italia, EMU, Listone Giordano, the Region of Umbria, the Fondazione Umbria Jazz, the Santarcangelo Theatre Festival, the Fondazione Olivetti, Fiera Milano, Torino World Design Capital 2008, Sviluppumbria, the Jordanian Ministry of Tourism, and the Centro Cultural Chacra de los Remedios in Buenos Aires. His numerous visual identity and branding projects have received national and international honours, including the ADI Design Index and the European Design Awards. Since 2006 he has taught Design Methodology at ISIA Urbino. Since 2014 he has been Professor of Design at the “Pietro Vannucci” Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia, where since 2018 he has coordinated the graduate programme in Territorial Brand Design. He also holds the Interior Design course at the Department of Engineering of the University of Perugia. From 2018 to 2026 he served as National President of AIAP – the Italian Association for Visual Communication Design.