While designers are mainly busy launching new furniture proposals, architects are left with the task of designing spaces to welcome and amaze visitors to Milan Design Week.
Of course, this is not the only task left to architects, who we know today play an increasingly central role in rethinking our relationship with the environment.
It is no coincidence that the Salone del Mobile has invited Mario Cucinella to address this topic through the Design with Nature project, a space in the centre of the Fair designed for meeting and dissemination. The relationship with nature, circularity, waste reduction and the development of a new ecological sensitivity are issues that we find in many of the proposed projects.
As usual, we find the work of the archistars in the most central areas of the city, and the State University is an aggregator that enthusiasts cannot exclude from their itineraries.
A hidden gem (but one that could turn out to be one of the most interesting exhibitions of the Fuorisalone) is the series of furnishings that Miralles and Tagliabue designed for their home in Barcelona. Discover all the designs in our photo gallery.
Great architects at Milan Design Week 2022: spaces, furniture and ideas
We have selected a series of projects by international architects and prestigious firms featured at the forthcoming Salone and Fuorisalone.
Università degli Studi di Milano – Honour Courtyard
via Festa del Perdono 7, Milan
6-12 June 2022
Orto Botanico di Brera
via Fratelli Gabba 10 – via Brera 28, Milan
6-12 June 2022
Salone del Mobile.Milano
Fiera Milano – Rho
Strada Statale Sempione 28, Rho
7-12 June 2022
Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense
via Brera 28, Milan
6-8 June 2022
Darsena
viale Gabriele D' Annunzio 20, Milan
6-12 June 2022
Cortile della Farmacia – Università Statale
via Festa del Perdono 7, Milan
6-12 June 2022
Università degli Studi di Milano – Aula Magna
via Festa del Perdono 7, Milan
6-12 June 2022
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- Salvatore Peluso
- 03 June 2022
- Milano
via Festa del Perdono 7, Milan
6-12 June 2022
Presented for the first time at the Architecture Biennale 2021, Alis is a contemporary gathering place, a meeting pod that redefines the concept of social interaction by offering a state-of-the-art, high-performance workstation. The meeting pod also features great adaptability: Alis consists of steel or aluminium and glass modules. We will find it in the Cortile d'Onore of the Statale but in the future we will also easily find it in very different contexts: from offices to airports, both indoors and outdoors.
via Fratelli Gabba 10 – via Brera 28, Milan
6-12 June 2022
CRA – Carlo Ratti Associati and Italo Rota present an interactive installation at Milan’s Botanical Garden. The project uses 500 meters of anti-bacterial copper pipe to create a path where people can discover multiple forms of sustainable energy production and play with its resulting effect: sound, light, evaporative cooling, in an interactive experience. The exhibition magically follows the Orto Botanico di Brera existing trails
Fiera Milano – Rho
Strada Statale Sempione 28, Rho
7-12 June 2022
Salone del Mobile invited Mario Cucinella to engage with the themes of circular economy and reuse, starting from the idea that the city is the possible "reserve" of the future, where most of the raw materials useful for construction can be found. In this perspective, urban areas become, in fact, a new opportunity to reduce environmental impact. The large installation – which is a 1,400 m2 meeting and information space – will be located in Hall 15 at Rho Fiera.
via Brera 28, Milan
6-8 June 2022
From 6 to 8 June, the first edition of Prada Frames will be held in the spaces of the Braidense National Library in Milan: a symposium curated by Formafantasma that starts from the forest ecosystem and analyses the logics that govern the wood industry today to extend reflection to the role of design and science as agents of change. Guests include several internationally renowned architects: Paulo Tavares, Stefano Boeri, Rotor, Andrés Jaque...
viale Gabriele D' Annunzio 20, Milan
6-12 June 2022
Stefano Boeri continues his path of urban forestation and ecology education with a floating installation, which will undoubtedly be among the most spectacular and photographed of this Fuorisalone (also given its central location, at the Darsena). Floating Forest is a green plug in the heart of Milan, as well as a place to meet and decongest from daily routine flows. The project will also be a legacy for the city of Milan, which is why we will donate the greenery to the Vettabbia Park, managed by Soulfood Forestfarms Hub Italia.
via Festa del Perdono 7, Milan
6-12 June 2022
In the elegant context of the Cortile della Farmacia, at the State University of Milan, we find the spectacular installation by Lissoni Associati for Amazon, The A-maze Garden. It is an exhibition route inspired by labyrinthine Italian gardens. Inside the path we will find a selection of products available on Amazon.it, including furniture and home accessories, of which more information can be obtained by framing the associated QR code.
via Festa del Perdono 7, Milan
6-12 June 2022
We remain at the Università Statale and in the Aula Magna lobby we find the exhibition “The Dancing Furniture of Enric Miralles & Benedetta Tagliabue’s House”, which shows us a lesser-known side of Enric Miralles (1955-2000) as a furniture designer. This selection of nine pieces, presented for the first time in Italy, is part of the series of furniture that the Catalan architect designed together with his partner Benedetta Tagliabue for their home in Barcelona.