Piovenefabi

Piovenefabi is an architecture studio founded by Ambra Fabi and Giovanni Piovene, based in Milan and Brussels. The studio produces architecture, urban research, territorial visions, and public design works regardless of the size, commission, or client. Their mission is to create spaces and objects that offer room for both collective and individual experiences, often with a focus on context, sustainability, and reuse.

The studio was part of the curatorial team of the Lisbon Architecture Triennial 2019-The poetics of reason with the exhibition What is ornament?, which investigated the role of ornament in the actual architectural production. The office works have been exhibited in the following venues: Mayrit Bienal (2021), Lisbon Architecture Triennial (2019, 2016), Rotterdam Biennale (2014), Chicago Architecture Biennale (2015, 2017), Campo (2016), Frac-Orleans (2017), Maniera-Brussels (2018). The office project 5 Pavilions for 5 Parks has won the Visit Brussels Awards 2018, and has been shortlisted for the T-Young, Medaglia d’oro dell’Architettura 2018 and the Brussels Architecture Prize 2021.

Ambra Fabi studied in Mendrisio and at Paris Belleville. She worked for Peter Zumthor, taught in Mendrisio, at IED Cagliari, KU Leuven Sint Lucas Brussels, and now teaches at ENSA Marne-la-Vallée, UCL LOCI St-Gilles and ULB La Cambre.

Giovanni Piovene graduated from IUAV Venice, co-founded Salottobuono and the magazine San Rocco, and curated Book of Copies. He and Ambra Fabi founded Piovenefabi in 2012. He has taught at ISIA Urbino, the Mendrisio Academy, and EPFL’s FORM lab, and currently teaches at ENSA Marne-la-Vallée.