Mario Cucinella

Mario Cucinella is an Italian architect, designer and academic. In 1986 he graduated in Genoa and subsequently worked with Renzo Piano in his Building Workshop in Genoa and Paris. In 1992 he opened his own studio Mario Cucinella Architects (MCA) in Paris and then in 1999 in Bologna. With a team of almost 100 experienced professionals in various disciplines (architecture, engineering, landscaping, industrial design), MCA studio is able to create sustainable and low environmental impact works. Thanks to the use of innovative technologies integrated with sustainability environmental, buildings such as the Sino Italian Ecological Building (SIEEB) in Beijing and the Center for Sustainable Energy Technologies in Ningbo (China) have sprung up and many more, some under construction both in Italy and abroad. In 2018 Mario Cucinella he was curator of the Italian Pavilion """" Arcipelago Italia """" at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. In 2019 he launched Mario Cucinel the Design and the Building Objects collection, inspired by his architectural projects. Cucinella has been a teacher since the end of the 1980s in various Italian and foreign universities. The main awards include the International Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects. For the Artemide brand Cucinella designed the Flexia sound-absorbing lamp, inspired by papiroflexia, the technique used to fold papyrus. This suspension lamp has been designed to improve the quality of the rooms. The acoustic panel controls the reverberation by absorbing the sound waves reflected in the environment. The Flexia lamp generates a diffused emission of uniform and comfortable light. The flexible wings assume numerous inclinations and positions thanks to the rotation mechanism from 0 ° to 15 ° to 30 °.