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Italian Architecture on ArchEyes spans from Leon Battista Alberti’s Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini to contemporary renovations across the peninsula. The archive includes Carlo Scarpa’s Fondazione Querini Stampalia and Gavina Showroom, MVRDV’s renovation of the GAM museum in Turin, a public square in Pistoia and many restored villas, rural homes and coastal houses. Much recent Italian work is defined by intervention in historic fabric, where new architecture must negotiate with centuries of existing buildings.
Casa della Sughera is the renovation and extension of a 1970s house on the Sardinian coast, where a new central void reorganizes two existing wings around views of Tavolara, a…
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Blue Moon converts the attic of an early twentieth-century Milanese residential block into a roof-level sequence of dwellings, terraces, and shared access spaces. The intervention reworks the social and spatial…
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Esplendido Townhouse is an approved but unbuilt adaptive reuse proposal for a historic residence in Lequile, Puglia. The scheme reorganizes a sequence of vaulted rooms around contemporary domestic life while…
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In Bassano del Grappa, a 1940s building of little architectural or historical value has made way for a new four-story office building with an underground parking level, commissioned by Bice…
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The Enrico Panzacchi School in Ozzano dell’Emilia, designed by Archisbang and Areaprogetti, combines a lower secondary school, gymnasium, and auditorium within a pavilion-based civic complex. Organized around a public pedestrian…
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GAM Torino is a proposed renovation of Turin’s Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art by MVRDV with Balance Architettura, reworking the 1959 building by Carlo Bassi and Goffredo Boschetti…
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Piazza San Lorenzo in Pistoia by MICROSCAPE reclaims a parking-dominated historic square as a continuous civic ground, using stone paving, structured planting, water management, lighting, and accessible seating to reconnect…
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Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice is a 16th-century palazzo transformed through successive architectural interventions by Carlo Scarpa, Valeriano Pastor, Mario Botta, and Michele De Lucchi, forming a layered cultural complex…
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Villa Normanni Puglia by Urban Interior is a pair of single-story villas set within a 1.7-hectare olive grove in San Vito Dei Normanni, Italy. Organized around a pool terrace, the…
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Piazza Mariano in Oristano, Italy, redesigned by Giulia de Appolonia, reconfigures a traffic-fragmented urban lot around an existing war memorial into a pedestrian civic space organized through stone paving, lawn…
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Vis-a-vis. Restoration of a Venetian Villa reworks Villa Dona in Costabissara as a legible ensemble of historical layers rather than as a return to a single-period image. The intervention focuses…
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Contemporary Roots stages a dialogue between craft and architecture within two sixteenth-century landmarks in central Italy, Villa Lante and Palazzo Farnese. The exhibition introduces nine artisans into highly structured Renaissance…
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Carlo Scarpa’s Gavina Showroom in Bologna reconfigures the ground floor of a medieval building into a tightly composed commercial interior where structure, craft, and spatial sequencing are inseparable. Designed between…
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Villa in Recco is a 730-square-meter residential transformation set within a terraced coastal landscape overlooking Baia dei Frati in Liguria. The project reworks an accretive historic structure through a landscape-led…
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