CAMILO REBELO

Camilo Rebelo was born in Porto in 1972. He studied at the Colégio Alemão do Porto [German College] and graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto in 1996. He worked with Eduardo Souto Moura between 1994/98 and with Herzog & de Meuron between 1998/99. He started his activity as a freelancer in Porto in 2000 and since then he has created about a hundred projects, some of them in partnership with Tiago Pimentel, Susana Martins, Cristina Chicau and Patrício Guedes. He has taught at the Faculty of Architecture and Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la University of Navarra (ETSAUN), and the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio. Since 2014 he has had a research studio, Architettura e Paesaggio [Architecture and Landscape], in the Politecnico di Milano.

His work has been recognised through several national and international awards including the Bauwelt Award, Baku UIA Award and Douro Valley Award, as well as nominations for the Secil Award, BSI Swiss Prize and EU Mies Award. The Ktima house was chosen by BBC2 to feature in a documentary series called The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes (Underground). His area of research has mostly been concerned with the relationship between architecture and nature, linking urban contexts and areas of protected and classified natural landscape. The subject matter, its atmosphere, its constructive processes and the urgency of its uses in each context have been recognised in Portugal and abroad.

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PAOLO ROSSELLI

Paolo Rosselli (1952) was introduced to photography by Ugo Mulas at the age of 20. After the degree in Architecture he begins a series of long journeys in India with Arturo Schwarz. During these long stays dedicated to the architecture of the Hindu temple, he begins assembling photographic profiles of Indian cities. Since then, his approach to architecture through photography evolves in other directions to contemporary architecture in Europe; towards masters of modern architecture as Giuseppe Terragni, and in the direction of the past, the Renaissance architecture in Italy. Beside this activity he has pursued specific researches on contemporary urban landscape and on the interiors of the home, seen as a place where people leave traces

of their living. He was invited to the Venice Biennial in three editions: in 1993 he exhibited groups of works on signs and messages found in the cities; in 2004 he shows an exploration on the interior of the home; lastly, in 2006, he showed a group of images of contemporary cities as Mexico, Shanghai, L.A., Istanbul, London. Recently, with the book Sandwich digitale and Scena Mobile published in 2009 and 2012 by Quodlibet, he has started to write on photography and about the changes in the perception of the real world in the digital age. In all, he is author of around twenty books. Paolo Rosselli was teacher of photography at the Milan Polytechnic for a brief period. He lives and works in Milano.

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