Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia

Alfonso Femia / Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia AF517Alfonso Femia was born in Taurianova, Reggio Calabria (Italy) on 1966, December the 7th. He lives in Genoa from where he is leaving on a unique and continuous "back and forth” journey between Genoa, Milan and Paris.He graduated from the University of Genoa – School of Architecture in 1992 and has been registered at the Register of Architects of Genoa since 1994, the Register of Architects of Île-de-France since 1995 and the Architects of Switzerland.He has been a Professor of Architectural Design Didactics at Kent State University in Florence and at the Universities of Ferrara and Genoa.Being the founder of 5+1 in 1995, he created 5+1AA in 2005 and 5+1AA sas Paris in 2007.He has won numerous international competitions and his work is published on international magazines. He has been a visiting Professor in the main Italian and international universities.In 2015, he founded 500x100 and created 500x100Talk, "the city as a dialogue tool”, a place of meetings and exchanges on the theme of the city, structured in two formats conducted by the journalist Giorgio Tartaro: the SetTalk in Milan and the CityTalk in the main European and Mediterranean cities.Alfonso Femia developed a "research around matter” which leads him to collaborate in design projects with international companies. With AFdesign*, he deepens the themes related to ceramics, light, wood, glass, cardboard and biodynamic cement. The three-dimensional design of ceramics and its application to architecture led him to create products that characterize the recent residential projects in Paris, Brescia, and the new BNL-BNP Paribas headquarters in Rome. Together with the artist Danilo Trogu and his magical poetry, Alfonso Femia develops a "Mediterranean Bestiary” in ceramics, which animate the Marseilles Docks, the Great Railways Workshops in Turin and the Asnières-sur-Seine housing around Paris.In 2017, he transforms the denomination