Rossana Capurso Atelier is a New York and Rome based Architectural and Design firm that specializes in Residential and Commercial Design and Construction management.
Over the past fifteen years Rossana Capurso Atelier has developed an innovative approach through a wide variety of projects from commercial and retail to high end luxury residential project, from preservation and renovation of historic buildings and townhouses to new construction and contemporary new edge design with attention to details and materials.
Born into a family of architects and builders, Rossana Capurso graduated in 1993 from the University of Rome La Sapienza.
She practiced with several architect but, she learned how to transform ideas into built from her father Oscar, collaborating in an interesting variety of projects focusing on the organic approach and transformation of the design grid and materials applied.
She left the family business to challenge herself in the office of Massimiliano Fuksas in Rome, one of the European prominent figures in the architectural and product design where she has had the chance to work on major architectural and urban projects in Italy and abroad.
Rossana finally decided to realize her dream to work in New York, where she had the opportunity to work with the office of Beyer Blinder and Belle architects in association with Pritzker prize winner Renzo Piano on the challenging and interesting Landmarks project of the Morgan Library in NYC.
In 2007 Rossana Capurso established her own practice working for client such as Intesa SanPaolo bank, Agnelli, Moleskine and many more.
Among the reknown projects the World Trade Memorial has been chosen among six thousand submissions, published on the NY Times and recognized by Gov. Pataki as contribution to the rebuilding ideas for Ground Zero.The design of the WTC Memorial has been published in the book “Designing Ground Zero” by Rizzoli International.
The project NY City Lighting has been exhibited in the Museum of the City of New York; the Elevated Railway track conversion, for Basel, Switzerland, has been exhibited in the Mediterrean Biennale in Rome, directed by Zaha Hadid in 1999.
PUBLICATION and EXHIBITION
2006 ARCHITETTURA.IT RENZO PIANO BUILDING WORKSHOP renovation and expansion of the Morgan Library, New York. published april 2006
2006 BIENNALE DI VENEZIA CITTA' DI PIETRA Design competition for area Punta Perotti Bari, on line exhibit
2005 VAN ALEN INSTITUTE NEW YORK The Parachute Pavilion design competition for Coney Island - exhibition
2005 NEW YORK TIMES: The Parachute Pavilion (Art & Leisure, Jul 21, 05)
2004 PRATT UNIVERSITY- NY WTC.Memorial –exhibition “ Corvettes to cuisinart” 6 decades of design
2004 NEW YORK TIMES: World Trade Center Memorial ( Art & Leasure, Sunday Feb 1st 2004)
2004 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY : World Trade Center Memorial Competition-exhibition of selected entry
2001 HIGH FLYER Magazine (United Kingdom) New York: High and Mighty: the US architecture (july-dec 01)
1999 PUCK BUILDING NY: the Floating Peppers for a CYBORG CITY organized by USA INSTITUTE
1999 MEDITERREAN ART BIENNALE ROME exhibit of design for Europan- design of highline Biel Switzerland with MA0
1995 CITY of ROME & LO STUDIO GALLERY: grattacieli ? (Skyscrapers?) Exhibition at Campidoglio-Rome
DESIGN COMPETITION
2006 BIENNALE DI VENEZIA- CITTA DI PIETRA Design competition for area Punta Perotti Bari
2005 VAN ALEN INSTITUTE-NY The Parachute Pavillion design competition for Coney Island
2004 LIGHTING FOR NEW YORK CITY: New street lights for the City.- design competition
2003 WORLD TRADE CENTER: design for the Memorial of the victims of the WTC in NY
2000 NEW SYNAGOGUE in Flemington- New Jersey- Sanctuary , Offices and community center
1999 USA INSTITUTE: CYBORG CITY - Artificial and Mechanical Islands for New York exhibited at Puck Building
Pratt Gallery New York City ( Aug,99)
1998 EUROPAN urban design competition- E4 : Biel –Switzerland – redesign the city highline.
1996 EUROPAN urban design ompetition E3: London’s Docklands Commercial and Residential center
1992 CITY of ROME: Industrial design competition - ideas for a new flower kiosk image for the city of Rome
1990 THORN EMI : Lamp design competition for the new Thorn Emi 2d bulb
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