Anthology
Golden Shadow
2019–2018
Off Club
By Lucia Barbara Galli
This is a strong reference to the archetype, one which is considered as the need to return to the origin of things.
Saturday Selects
By Monica Khemsurov
The Sicilian architect Antonino Cardillo just unveiled his latest masterpiece, the Off Club in Rome.
Die Symmetrie
Der Nacht
By Tim Berge
Wie kaum ein anderer schafft es Cardillo mit seiner Architektur, den Nutzer physisch wie psychisch in seine Gedankenwelt zu involvieren.
Roman Empire
By Suzanne Trocmé
A long-time Wallpaper* collaborator, Antonino Cardillo’s latest oeuvre marks a defining moment for the Sicilian architect, who is not afraid to reference numerous influences under one explicitly textured roof.
DEAR
2017
Architecture
and Truth
By Jeanette Kunsmann with Stephan Burkoff
Very few architects outside the three superstars of the industry (Libeskind, Hadid and Koolhaas) have attracted as much attention from the international press and trade magazines as Antonino Cardillo.
Evocation
2018–2015
Reflection
By Brianna Ruland
This space evokes love and loss, nostalgia, melancholy, and life’s most essential inaudible philosophies. Most importantly, this long dark cave can certainly be trusted.
Evocazione
Astrazione Illusione
By Jean-Marie Martin
Gli spazi che ha progettato rendono palese l’incolmabile distanza che li separa da quanto evocano—essendo peraltro la misurazione della lontananza il significato più proprio dell’evocazione.
Elemental
By Mrinalini Ghadiok
Antonino Cardillo challenges the very norms of the architectural process as we have popularly come to know it.
The Haven
of Memory
By Francesca Gottardo
The wooden inlay in the oratory floor, [...] represents the final destination in the journey and expresses the peaceful stability of a safe haven.
Architektur
als Rausch
By Jeanette Kunsmann
Antonino Cardillo beherrscht die Kunst, durch Räume und Materialien Geschichten zu erzählen: Die Welt bleibt ein Labyrinth aus Erinnerungen, der Architekt ist ein Zeitreisender—und Architektur wird zum Rausch.
Un’Anima per la Sala Laurentina
By Mariza D’Anna
A fondale, una nicchia come un mihrab: “nell’idea dell’architettura come dimensione sacra ed universale.”
Coarse Coral-Pink Plaster
By Jessica Mairs
Italian architect Antonino Cardillo has coated the walls of a vaulted chamber-music and events space in lumpy coral-pink, grey and green plasterwork.
Ancestral Images
2018–2013
Inherent Color
and Material Color
By Schultz, Wiedemann-Tokarz and Herrmann
The alienation of the material using the devices of color and texture surprises and, at the same time, generates a feeling of security.
Lumira
Favourite Works
By Annie Carroll
His understanding of space and balance has resulted in some of the most influential interiors of recent times.
Saturday Selects
By Monica Khemsurov
Cardillo is the guy behind one of our favorite interiors projects in recent memory, the House of Dust.
All-Green Gallery
By Alice Morby
Antonino Cardillo looked to the colours and textures used in the opening scene of Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold opera.
L'Architecture
est un Songe
By Sipane K-Hoh
Cette œuvre architecturale aussi inattendue soit-elle traduit un certain dualisme où les formes ordonnées du contenant se heurtent aux imperfections des contenus.
Stanze.
Altre Filosofie dell'Abitare
By Beppe Finessi
A new author who has carved out a place entirely his own in the history of this discipline within just a few years.
A Shop
With No Products in Sight
By Jessica Cooper
Somewhere on Dover Street, [...] there lies a fairy tale grotto filled with tranquillity and calm.
Da Nobis Hodie
Incantum Quotidianum
By Ana Araujo
Egyptian? Greek? Roman? It doesn’t really matter, because once these ancestral images are deposited in our unconscious they are emptied of their historical specificity.
Scent and Texture
By Anna Winston
Italian architect Antonino Cardillo has created a multi-sensory space for experiencing and buying fragrance by coating a room inside an old London building with volcanic ash.
Being in Shape
Shaping Environments
By Sophia Klinkenberg
Cardillo links shadows and mysteries to the creation of a sense of eroticism.
Architettura
di Polvere
By Francesca Gottardo
Una dimensione apparentemente fuori dal tempo, che qui sembra essersi fermato o mai trascorso, sospeso, immobile.
Götterdämmerung in Rom
By Jeanette Kunsmann
Mit 40 Quadratmetern eher überschaubar, hat der Architekt die Galerie in einen sakralen Raum verwandelt—und eine mutige Abwechslung zum ewigen White Cube geschaffen.
Postmodern Room
By Nacho Alegre
It instantly brought back memories of the best postmodern, neoclassical architecture that I was revisiting at the time—Bofill, Moneo, Tusquets—but with a more personal and very contemporary view.
Decorative Ceilings
By Jenny Dalton
It is purposely reminiscent of all kinds of subliminal historical references, in particular the vault of very early architecture.
Domestic Philosophy
By Riya Patel
In place of abundant natural light and designer furnishings are gloomy cavernous spaces characterized by a grainy ceiling of pozzolanic plaster, tinted the colour of dust.
Feeling
Through Sight
By Ana Araujo
Cardillo’s architecture promotes the sensorial mobilisation envisioned by Benjamin as a potential force for social/political transformation.
Morada
de lo Efímero
By Sandra Bermudez
El arquitecto siciliano se sirve del color para ilustrar el camino de la humanidad: “de la gruta a la rosa” como expresión máxima de lo sublime.
A Courageous Project
By Dana Tomić Hughes
This is a courageous project with a fresh aesthetic and a unique vision. It’s the kind of interior that creates new trends, memes and movements.
Primordial caverns
By Mitchell Oakley Smith
As one of the world’s most exciting architects, Antonino Cardillo draws on classical and ancient architectural forms to create spaces that feel entirely new.
Haus aus Staub
By Tim Berge
Für den Architekten wird Architektur an der Stelle spannend, wo sie „unsichtbar wird oder etwas verbirgt“ und an der Grenze „zum Traum“ existiert—mit seinem Haus aus Staub hat er genau das in die Wirklichkeit umgesetzt.
House of Dust
By Amy Frearson
Italian architect Antonino Cardillo used roughly textured plaster to create lumpy brown surfaces across the upper walls and ceilings of this apartment in Rome.
Una Casa
una Visione
By Paolo Maria Noseda
Un ingresso laterale svela un salone che, come una maschera greca improvvisamente indossata dal visitatore, proietta e attira l’attenzione su due finestre rastremate: un paio di occhi sul mondo.
Fulcrum
2013
Architecture as Entertainment
By Antonino Cardillo
Architecture regresses into entertainment. Thus contemporary architecture celebrates the power and becomes itself the power. And even if they seem like opposites, power and entertainment are part of the some strategy, one that distracts people from the feelings of life.
Der Spiegel
2019–2012
Der Architekt als Märchenerzähler
By Kirsten Wenzel
Auch die Architektur hatte ihren Relotius. Antonino Cardillo gab Renderings als Bauwerke aus und narrte so die Fachpresse. Als Meister der Inszenierung fasziniert er die Branche bis heute.
Digitale Wirklichkeit Versprechen
By Carolin Höfler
Nachdem die Darstellungen als Wunschbilder enthüllt waren, entgegnete er: „Sehen Sie es einfach wie eine literarische Erzählung, [...] ein Märchen. Da ist es auch nicht wichtig, dass die Dinge tatsächlich passiert sind.“
Über die mediatisierte Repräsentation von Architektur
By Gérard Houllard
Tatsächlich hat Cardillo hier im Kern Recht, denn wie auch dieser Aufsatz zeigen wollte, können Bilder von unrealisierten und utopischen Architekturen zum festen Bestandteil der Architekturgeschichte werden und diese nicht unwesentlich beeinflussen.
We Are Mirrors
of One Another
By Stefano Mirti and Gioia Guerzoni
I think you look for things in me that are in any case in front of you, in your head, in your imagination.
Die Entkoppelung
von Entwurf und Darstellung
By Daniel Lordick
Es war einmal ein junger Architekt, der auszog, um die Welt zu erobern. [...] Seine Architektur existierte lediglich als Simulation.
Alles nur Gerendert
und Jetzt?
By Christian Holl
Oder die, wie wir uns über die Medien heute unsere Realität aus dem Materiellen und dem Imaginären konstruieren und welche Konsequenzen das hat. Keine einfachen Fragen, wahrlich. Wenn der Fall Cardillo nun dazu diente, wenigstens wieder eine dieser Fragen ernsthaft zu diskutieren, hätte er vielleicht mehr für den Architekturdiskurs getan, als die, die meinen, immer schon die Antwort auf sie zu haben.
Phantasie und Wirklichkeit
By Gabriele Detterer
Im Übrigen sei Architektur schon immer auch ephemer und virtuell gewesen, erklärt er. Von Palladio bis Schinkel, von Sant’Elia bis Mies van der Rohe hätten Baukünstler mit Ideen in Form von Surrogaten die Architekturentwicklung beeinflusst und die Realität verändert.
Hochstapler
By Susanne Beyer
Als Felix Krull jung war, dachte er lange darüber nach, ob er die Welt klein oder groß sehen solle. Seiner „Natur gemäß“ habe er dann in seinem späteren Leben „die Welt für eine große und unendlich verlockende Erscheinung geachtet.“ Er wurde der glücklichste Hochstapler der Literaturgeschichte.
Schöner Klonen
By Peter Reischer
Gefragt, ob die Fotos echt seien, gibt es die knappe Antwort: „I am an artist and as an artist I manipulate reality!“
Post Modernism
2011
Style and Subversion
By London Design Festival
To complement the V&A’s keynote exhibition Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–90, the LDF invites you to the specially commissioned Postmodern Cafe, designed by architect Antonino Cardillo.
Takarazuka
2010–2011
Sperimentazioni
By Massimo Locci
Nella fase realizzativa si attua un processo di decantazione di segni e una sistematizzazione del metodo così efficace che il linguaggio appare chiarito e rafforzato.
野村工務店
By Kenji Nomura
アントニオさん と協議を重ねて作り上げたものなので、我々の最も思い入れ深い作品の一つになって います。そして、アントニオさんの魅力が引き出された住まいになっていると思いま す。今回、アントニオさんのこだわり、デザイン性等、本当に勉強になったと感じて います。
Wallpaper
2010–2009
Men's Footwear
World Tour
By Tony Chambers
Cardillo is one of the most significant architects of our time.
Wallpaper*
Architects Directory
By Johnatan Bell and Ellie Stathaki
Rather than simply report on the newest firms to flash onto our radar, Wallpaper* has commissioned 30 of the finest young architects to design their ideal home.
Remote Places
2011–2007
Architecture
and Reverberation
By Antonino Cardillo
Sometimes architecture is all the more interesting, the more invisible or concealed it is.
印象派建筑师
耿海珍对Antonino Cardillo的采访
Antonino Cardillo 的建筑体块巨大，仿佛来自遥远的异乡与古国，美丽而桀骜不驯 慷慨、狂热，节奏深沉而激昂，光影的瞬息万变令建筑展现着千变万化的容貌，仿佛作着灵魂最深处的展现 对抗，迸发出令人震撼的美，矛盾，产生稳固的和谐。
Ein Haus
wie ein Tanz
By Judith Jenner
Der traditionelle andalusische Flamenco hat viele Künstler inspiriert: Federico García Lorca zu Gedichten, Pablo Picasso zu Gemälden und Skulpturen—und den jungen italienischen Architekten Antonino Cardillo zu einem Haus.
Poetry of Space
By Ridhi Kale
So, if Homer had his Iliad and Odyssey, Rome based architect Antonino Cardillo has the homes he builds across the globe, interpreting his clients’ “most hidden and irrational wishes.”
Physical Poetry
By Thomson Carpenter
The first to admit to being a dreamer, Cardillo concedes to inhabiting a virtual world, a parallel universe, moreover describing his fall into architecture as a chance happening.
House of Convexities
By Ramia Habchy
The play of light within the convex walls of this house create a romantic aura that envelopes visitors and transports them into a world of wonder at the inspired superiority that made this beautifully shaped structure possible.
Celestial Vision
By Devyani Jayakar
Magnetising the eye from the very moment you view the enormous sweeping curves in the living room, the architecture appears to be the harbinger of an epochal change in Italy’s post imperial design history.
My Concrete Heart
By Jana Martin
It functions as observatory. It makes slides of the moon. It considers the Earth’s place in the universe.
Ellipse 1501
By Matt Hussey
This new house designed by Antonino Cardillo has stumped us good and proper.
A Total Eclipse
By Antonino Cardillo
Near a rocky slope, behind a thick blanket of pines, lives a house in the shape of a tower.
Blueprint
2007
Comment
By Antonino Cardillo
The history of man has developed through continuous interaction between different cultures. It often happens that the dominant take possession of the submissive, managing to disguise the process by rewriting history.
Ulisse
2007
L'Egitto
e l'Immortalità Perduta
By Antonino Cardillo
“Ogni occhio ti vede di fronte a sé, perché tu sei il Disco del giorno; ma quando tu tramonti e tutti gli occhi per i quali hai creato la vista non possono vedere te e quello che tu hai creato, tu sei ancora nel mio cuore.”