Leopoldo Villardi

1 month ago | architecturalrecord.com | Leopoldo Villardi

ProjectsArchitectural TechnologyArchitect Continuing EducationBuildings by TypeTall Building ProjectsWorkplace Design Milan bay be known for many things—fashion, design, art. Riveting skyscrapers, on the other hand, have been few and far between since 1958, when Gio Ponti’s Pirelli Tower and BBPR’s Torre Velasca first soared into existence.

2 months ago | architecturalrecord.com | Leopoldo Villardi

Italy’s Veneto is an agro-industrial hotbed. Small cities that dot otherwise broad swaths of farmland play host to a variety of manufacturing companies, from tanneries and mills to foundries and glassworks. One such town, Arzignano, 11 miles west of Vicenza, has become something of a design laboratory for Italian studio AMAA, cofounded in 2012 by former classmates Marcello Galiotto and Alessandra Rampazzo.

2 months ago | architecturalrecord.com | Leopoldo Villardi

Architecture NewsOpinion This image of the building’s meditation chapel was featured in Architectural Record’s November 1969 cover story on the chapel. Photo © Ezra Stoller/Esto, Yossi Milo Gallery Last fall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art surprised many by mounting a “major” architecture exhibition—the first in some 50 years, according to the institution.

Mar 7, 2025 | architecturalrecord.com | Leopoldo Villardi

Lago Di Garda is much quieter and less star-studded than the better-known Italian lakes of Como and Maggiore. And reaching Riva, as the locals call it—the town at Garda’s northernmost tip—requires some real grit and gall from the driver’s seat. The winding cliffside road leading there, which darts in and out of tunnels, some single-laned, is certainly not for the faint-hearted.

Mar 6, 2025 | architecturalrecord.com | Leopoldo Villardi

When architects and urbanists think of Barcelona, the city’s octagonal blocks—and architects’ inventive responses to them—immediately come to mind. It was civil engineer Ildefons Cerdà who envisioned this now-famous plan, first realized in 1860 in what became the bustling Eixample district. As the Catalan capital grew and implemented more of the grid, it started to swallow up nearby villages.