In design, attention often settles on the big names, the historic brands, the companies that have already secured their place in the international imagination. And yet, some of the most compelling stories take shape elsewhere too: in those emerging labels that begin to stand out not because of the noise they make, but because of …
When asking how many architects there are in Italy today, the first point to clarify is which data we are really looking at. According to the Unified Register of the National Council of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects and Conservators, as of January 16, 2026, the total number of registered professionals is 159,115. Today, this is …
Rome is a city that resists simplification. Here, every project enters into dialogue with a living material made of history, layers, urban proportions, memory, and constant transformation. But it would be reductive to read the Italian capital only through the weight of its past. Today, Rome is also an open laboratory, shaped by new ways …
Smiljan Radić Clarke is the winner of the 2026 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the international award founded in 1979 by the Pritzker family and widely regarded as architecture’s highest distinction. The official announcement confirms the global consecration of a designer who has long occupied an unusual, and therefore decisive, place in contemporary debate. Far from the …
