Gino Malacarne was born in Portomaggiore,
Ferrara in 1955. He studied architecture at IUAV-Istituto
Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and received his degree
under the guidance of Aldo Rossi in 1981. Since
then he has taught design studios and seminars at IUAV until 2004.
He has been a member of the Board of the PhD in Architectural
Composition of the DPA at the University IUAV of Venice until 2007.
He has taught at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of
Trieste. Professor of architectur and urban design since 2004 at
the Faculty of Architecture “Aldo Rossi” University of Bologna, he
became Dean of the Faculty in 2005 and since 2012 has been a member
of the board of the PhD program in Architectural Composition of the
Faculty. From 2012 to 2015 he has been Coordinator of the Master in Architecture and Vice President of the School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Bologna.
Involved with
research in architectural composition, Malacarne has conducted
various studies on theatre design and civic architecture. He has
published projects and essays in national and international
journals and take part in conferences. He has participated in urban
requalification for some public administrations with architectural
projects and realizations of urban public spaces and public
residential buildings. Malacarne has taught in national and
international design seminars and participated in numerous
international design competitions.
He has
participated in collective exhibitions of architectural projects
including: III Mostra Internazionale di Architettura Biennale of
Venezia; Progetto Venezia (1985) and V Mostra Internazionale di
Architettura Biennale of Venezia (1991), Triennale of Milano, Il
centro altrove (1995), “Nuova Architettura Italiana”, held at
Heimat Museum Charlottemburg of Berlin,1996, then in other German
University, in Buenos Aires and Melbourne; “Incontri sulla giovane
architettura europea”, Siviglia 1996, Porto 1999, Biennale di
Cracovia 2000; “Next school new entrances”, in Next, 8.
Mostra Internazionale of Architettura,
La Biennale di Venezia, 2002; “Città di Pietra”, 10. Mostra
Internazionale di Architettura, La Biennale of Venezia 2006;
“ARCHITETTI ITALIANI A CONFRONTO”, Aula Mostre Campus
Bovisa, Facoltà di Architettura Civile, Politecnico of Milano, then
in Venezia, Vicenza, Ravenna and Bari; “Nuova architettura
razionale”, Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Padova 2102 and Univerity
Iuav of Venezia 2012.
Among the major
projects: Ideas competition for “Parco la Favorita” in Mirandola,
Modena 1987 (awarded project); “Stazione ferroviaria per S. Pietro
in Casale”, Bologna 1989; International competition “Un museo di
architettura per Parma” 1989 (awarded project); Design for
“Westhafen” in Duisburg 1990; Apartment in a Peep's area in S.
Pietro in Casale, Bologna 1991-95; Project for the south area of
Cracow, International Design Seminar 2000; Competition “Progetto
per i nuovi uffici Alcoa Italia S.p.A.” in Bolzano (with Rebus
Workshop, Padova), first prize awarded 2000-2001; Competition
“Feltria Urbs”
(con L. Semerani, A. Dal Fabbro, A. Gallo, E. Mantese, G. Marras)
Feltre (Belluno) 2002, first prize awarded; International
competition “Piazza della Libertà”, Cesena 2003, first prize
awarded; Project of recovery
and restorationof
the fort“Forte San Biagio – Werk Colle delle Benne”
in Levico (Trento) 2004-2008; “Modena Città Media Felix. Progetto
di riqualificazione urbana per il Villaggio Artigiano e il
quartiere Madonnina” first and second phase, Modena 2005-2008;
Project for two residential blocks in south Verona, PRUSST Verona
sud, 2007; Executive design for Piazza della libertà, Cesena
2011.
He
edited the book "Progetti veneziani", Milano 1985; he has curated
the exhibition and the catalog "Jože Plečnik, lo spazio urbano a
Lubiana", Treviso 1996. He
edited the "Aldo Rossi e Venezia, il teatro e la città", Milano
2002. He published " Die Stadt und die Türme. Le città e le torri"
in the book: Die Idee der Stadt/L'idea della
città. I/II/III, Tübingen-Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag 2009.
He is the author of the book " Progetto Fo-Ce, città lineare Forlì
Cesena", Bologna 2012. He edited the publication "La Casa. Forme e
luoghi dell'abitare urbano", Milano 2013.
The main projects are located in the publications:
Architettura civile, in “Paesaggi contemporanei” DPA,
Edicomedizioni, Monfalcone, 2001. Brama Zakopianska
(Publication of the project “Zacopane Gate. Progetto per l'area sud
di Cracovia”, in A&B n. 104 (3) Marzec 2001. Zakopane
Gate, in “7 GATES TO CRACOW” Krakow 2001. Gino
Malacarne, in Next school New entrances, (Catalog of the
exhibition) La Biennale di Venezia, 8ª Mostra Internazionale di
Architettura, Marsilio Editori, Venezia, 2002. Seven gates to
Cracow, in “Next
schools” catalog of the 8ª Mostra Internazionale di
Architettura, La Biennale di Venezia “Next”, Marsilio, Venezia,
2002. Le torri sopra la città in Aion n. 9, 2005. “ARCHITETTI
ITALIANI A CONFRONTO”, edited by M. Landsberger, Edicit-
Editrice centro Italia, Foligno 2008, pp. 22-33. NUOVA
ARCHITETTURA RAZIONALE/ NEUE RATIONALE ARCHTEKTUR 2010, Aion
Edizioni, Firenze 2010. “Architettura per la città” in Aion n.
19, Firenze 2012.
