Stefano Casciani

Stefano Casciani

A writer, designer and artist born in Rome on 1955: moved to Milan in 1979 to join Domus magazine as a freelance editor. Casciani has developed many communication, exhibition and design programs with companies and institutions as Alessi, Bisazza, Bticino, Cassina, Driade, Ferrari, Ivalo Lighting, O Luce, Tecno, Studio Alchimia, Zanotta, Biennale di Venezia, Triennale di Milano, Wolfsonian Museum in Miami, City of Rome. Visiting Professor in design and architecture schools and universities in Italy and abroad, he has been awarded with the Compasso d'Oro design award (2001) and the Lighting for Tomorrow Prize (U.S.A. 2003). He is the author of about 900 articles and twenty-four books, mainly focussed on the relationships between architecture, design and art, as "Building the City of Exchange: the New Milan Fair by Massimiliano Fuksas" published by Editoriale Domus, 2005 - or the most recent "Flaneur. Sparse Writings on Architecture Design and Arts", published by Skira, 2011.

After leaving the editorship at Domus magazine, that he managed with editors as Deyan Sudjic and Alessandro Mendini, he has re-started his carreer publishing and directing two new magazines: "Babylon City of Dreams", the first Visual Culture magazine designed and produced as an iPad App only (soon available on Newsstand) and the printed magazine "Disegno. La nuova Cultura Industriale" (The New Industrial Culture), aimed to deeper inquiring into creation, building and sustainability issues in contemporary design culture. Casciani lives and works in Milan, Zürich and Rome.