Chronology of Research
2025 – 2003
Sequence of events and outcomes in Antonino Cardillo’s research, presented in reverse chronological order to aid historical analysis
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- 2024
- 2023
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
- 2013
- 2012
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- 2006 – 2003
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2025
- Depth architecture—The aesthetic nature of the psyche (C. G. Jung-Institut Zürich)
- Elogio del grigio (Casabella)
- Style, form, proportion, position (La giovane architettura 4, D’Arch, Università di Palermo)
- Simulation as hermeneutics of reality (Artbox, La7)
- M86-M88 Palazzo Rhinozeros, Off Club, Vestibule Domus Aurea (Architekturführer Rom, Edition Axel Menges)
2024
- Ministerial reception. Grand station at the airport (Über kurz oder lang: Essays und Reportagen, Czernin)
- Architecture of a historiography: antoninocardillo.com (History/Theory Workshop, California Polytechnic State University)
- Trapani: Coral Cave (Sizilien 2024, Reise Know-How)
- Chiaroscuro composition (Yellowtrace)
- The anthropology in the architecture of Antonino Cardillo (La camera dello scirocco)
- Conversation with Paolo Portoghesi (L’Arca International)
- In Rome, an architecture festival also involves restaurants and hotels (Food & Wine Italia)
- Off Club (Open House Roma 2024)
- Clean lines (Stavebníctvo a bývanie)
- House of Arianna (L’Arca International)
- Elogio del grigio House (Interiors Korea)
- Elegy in grey (BauNetz)
- A miniature palace, diaphanous and material, on the Garda (Elle Decor)
- House of Arianna. A place in times (Gooood)
- Elogio del grigio. Castiglione delle Stiviere, Italia (Divisare Journal)
- The Enchanting Gray Palette (Dsignbit)
- Elogio del grigio House (ArchDaily)
2023
- Antonino Cardillo designs Elogio del grigio house as "miniature palazzo" (Dezeen)
- Elogio del grigio
- The adventures of LucasArts and Lucasfilm Games in the history of video games (Lucasdelirium)
- Mammacaura (L’Arca International)
- The intervention in the Ettore and Infersa salt pans (Abitare la terra)
- An integrative journey (Anthropology in Architecture, Museo Agostino Pepoli)
- Conversation with Paolo Portoghesi (Parco di Calcata)
- The cave and the garden (Nine by Night, OHR 2023)
- House of Dust (Open House Roma 2023)
- Open doors to architecture (Corriere della Sera Roma)
- Open House Roma is back, ‘Equilibrium’ the theme of 2023 (Adnkronos)
2022
- References in a contemporary context (TU Dresden)
- FAKEcollage. I don’t believe my eyes! (Università di Genova)
- Trapani: Coral Cave (Sizilien 2022, Reise Know-How)
- Trapani (Sizilien 2022, DuMont)
- Ten residential interiors showcasing exposed plaster walls (Dezeen)
- Specus Corallii (Monsignor Gaspare Gruppuso: the Priest with a Heart of Gold, L’Anfora di Calliope)
- Moodboard (ADI Museum KaleidosGames)
- Mammacaura (Identità dell’architettura italiana)
2021
- Open House Roma, inside the architecture (Corriere della Sera Roma)
- Open House Roma 2021, to discover the most secret city (Vanity Fair)
- Brave new Italian world (Villas)
- House of Dust (Open House Roma 2021)
- Mammacaura (Casabella)
- Apartment interior design: outstanding spaces around the globe (Wallpaper*)
- Colours. Emotion through lights (The Immaterial Institute, Chelsea College of Arts and Design)
- Memories for Cruising
- Mammacaura
- Top inspiring Palermo interior designers (Rug Society)
- New retail scenarios (Retail and Service Experience Design for CCIs, Politecnico di Milano)
2020
- Ten pink interiors that range from rose blush to bright coral (Dezeen)
- The best fusion restaurants in Milan and Rome (Icon)
- 17 wonderful shops to visit (even if you don’t buy anything) (Porcelanosa Lifestyle)
- Exploration of the atmosphere in architecture (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
- Specus Corallii. Trapani, Italy (divisare.com)
- Typology: Nightclub (The Architectural Review)
- Lecture series: Dessau Talks (Next to Bauhaus, Bauhaus Dessau DIA)
- Inside/Out: Lecture series (Proximities: Inhabitations: Identities: Interior Design RCA 2018-19, Royal College of Art)
2019
- The poetry of architecture (Imagicasa)
- Granularity (étapes)
- A synchronicity of cultures and civilisations (Dessauer Gespräche, Bauhaus Dessau DIA)
- Earth and pink (Monocromie d’interni, Politecnico di Milano)
- Sicilian modern architectural marvels (Sizilien 2019, DuMont)
- 10 projects of Antonino Cardillo every architect must visit! (Re-thinking the Future)
- Archetypes of imagery (Abitare la terra)
- Specus Corallii (Architecture and Eroticism, Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης)
- Antonino Cardillo, House of Dust e Zak McKracken (Lucasdelirium)
- From Zak McKracken to House of Dust (Rome Video Game Lab 2019, Instituto Luce Cinecittà)
- Takero Shimazaki: colours in the shadows (Casabella)
- New Roman bar in Byzantine style (La Vie)
- The making of Rome’s Off Club (Inside-Out, Royal College of Art)
- The architect as a storyteller (Competitionline)
- From Off the counter is a stage (Bar Giornale)
2018
- Inherent color and material color (Thinking Color in Space, Birkhäuser)
- The symmetry of the night (DEAR Magazin)
- Olfactory in design (Middlesex University)
- Paradise. Rome, Italy (divisare.com)
- Saturday selects: Week of September 17, 2018 (Sight Unseen)
- Roman restaurant (interior.ru)
- Departure info: Roman empire. Off Club, Rome (Wallpaper*)
- Paradiso
- Modern architectural style (Sicilian Visitors – Culture, Lulu)
- Specus Corallii (Sicily – Trapani: project Internationalization, Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Gent)
- Specus Corallii Reflection (California Polytechnic State University)
- Our top three favourite works (Atelier Lumira)
2017
- Uncanny beauty: unveiling a prison interior (Idea Journal)
- What kind of amazing houses are there in Japan? 30 diverse and unique Japanese homes (Phm Zine)
- The architect of a generation (Promostyl)
- Grottoes, vaults, arches and policromy (Heinze ArchitekTOUR)
- The sexuality of architecture (Mitte/Rand Salon)
- Creative tendencies: floating & ambiguity (Cover All 2018 – 2019, Noroo Pantone Color Institute)
- Evocation, abstraction, illusion (Casabella)
- A house that pays tribute to the earth and the caverns (AD Mexico)
- Green class (Marie Claire Maison)
- Churches etc. (Centre for Theology and Arts, Univerzita Karlova)
- Ver, tocar y sentir (Solange)
- Architecture is to express my love for light (知乎专栏)
- Nordic design keywords (Elle Decoration China)
- Elemental (Mondo*Arc India)
- The haven of memory (Abitare la terra)
- The scent library (The essence of Villa Arconati, Politecnico di Milano)
- Apartment in Rome with a "dusty" look (Ville e Casali)
- An impossible story (The Trail Blazers, Zak Radio)
- Saturday selects: Week of April 17, 2017 (Sight Unseen)
- Antonino Cardillo bases textured all-green gallery interior on Wagner opera (Dezeen)
- Architecture and truth (DEAR Magazin)
- Dreamworld (AD Germany)
- An architecture that looks to the future and has deep roots in the past (Strenna d’agosto 2016, La Ragnatela)
- Aspirations of grandeur (Spring/summer 2017 trends, Husk)
- The magic of corals (Inside Quality Design)
- Specus Corallii (The Coral Cave) in Trapani, Italy (Yellowtrace)
- Ancient dust & fragrance (Neil Cownie Architect)
- The Coral Cave in Trapani (Architetto, Wolters Kluwer)
- House of Dust (Hic Arquitectura)
2016
- Mondrian Suite gallery cafe (ViviRoma)
- Specus Corallii (Hic Arquitectura)
- The Coral Cave (Living, Corriere della Sera)
- Grottoes (architettura-italiana.com)
- Architecture as ecstasy (designlines, BauNetz)
- Architecture is a dream (Details d’Architecture)
- Antonino Cardillo’s interiors (divisare.com)
- Unobservable layers (XXI)
- A soul for the Sala Laurentina (La Sicilia)
- Plaster games (KBProject)
- Coarse coral-pink plaster lends furry appearance to Antonino Cardillo’s Sicilian grotto (Dezeen)
- 10 of the most popular pink-hued interiors on Dezeen’s Pinterest boards (Dezeen)
- Trapani, the Sala Laurentina reopens (Diocesi di Trapani)
- Specus Corallii (Cattedrale di Trapani)
- The sense of smell in architecture (Beyond the gaze. An architectural tool, Ecole d’Architecture de Casablanca)
- Desires from an ancient past (ODDA)
- Beautiful and rough: irresistible interior (Living, Corriere della Sera)
- Specus Corallii
- Dominant colour (Bamboo)
- New generation. Unusual Narratives (Bamboo)
- Rooms (Stanze): Novel living concepts at the Triennale di Milano (Yellowtrace)
- Hyper desire (Technische Hochschule Köln)
- Eleven rooms between vertigo and perspective games (Pambianco News)
- Stories of other rooms (Rooms. Novel Living Concepts, Triennale di Milano)
- Color as a story (Asun)
- Inside-out retail (How We Shop Now What’s Next?, Westfield)
2015
- Specus Corallii: a work of architecture for the Sala Laurentina in Trapani (Lettera Aperta, Cattedrale di San Lorenzo)
- Faked reality (Constructed Realities, Goethe-Universität / Deutsche Architekturmuseum)
- Saturday… with scented reflections (5FTINF)
- Luxury futures showcase 2015 (The Future Laboratory, LS:N Global)
- A shop with no products in sight (Eclectic)
- Beguiling simplicity (handelsjournal)
- Give us every day our daily enchantment (Design Exchange)
- Media dissemination of architecture in the age of visualization (Photography, Reproduction, Manipulation. Architecture in the Image of Photography, Münster School of Architecture)
- Theatre of suspended scents (Yellowtrace)
- A touch of fragrance in the ashes (La Vie)
- Illuminum London – Colour as Narrative (Elle Decoration)
- Primordial perfume (LS:N Global)
- Colour as a narrative: perfume brand Illuminum explores realm of scent through architecture (Wallpaper*)
- Illuminum teams up with architect Antonino Cardillo for their latest project (The Glass Magazine)
- Antonino Cardillo’s ash (Apartments & Developments)
- Antonino Cardillo combines scent and texture for Illuminum Fragrance shop interior (Dezeen)
- Body building: second skin (Being in shape / shaping environments, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten)
- Colour as a Narrative
- References (Baunetzwoche)
- Architecture of dust (Abitare la terra)
- Twilight of the Gods in Rome (designlines, BauNetz)
- Effect décor. From the peeling wall to the wallpaper. The trends of the moment according to 9 Italian protagonists of interior decoration (Living, Corriere della Sera)
- In addition to reality: the schizophrenia of the industry (Baunetzwoche)
2014
- Top 100 interiors (AD Spain)
- 12 years of art at the Mondrian Suite (ViviRoma)
- Crepuscular Green (Frame)
- 14 of the world’s most inspiring new interior-design projects (Telegraph)
- Postmodern room (Room: Inside Contemporary Interiors, Phaidon)
- The House of Dust (la Repubblica)
- Min at the Soane
- Ephemeral spaces (Anti-Materials, LS:N Global)
- Space and Light (Sir John Soane’s Museum)
- Best five italian architects (Secret Italy)
- Mash up (Trend Spring Summer 2015, Texworld)
- Crepuscular Green
- Against the current (Trend)
- Decorative ceilings (How to Spend It, Financial Times)
- Advertising with the wow (Der Standard)
- Apartment "House of Dust" in Rome (AIT Magazin)
- Feeling through sight (The Journal of Architecture, RIBA)
2013
- Earth tones never looked better than in the ‘House of Dust’ (Curbed)
- Antonino Cardillo constructs the House of Dust in Rome (Design Boom)
- Lavish stores: Sergio Rossi (The Lavish World)
- Shame on you, Designboom (Hochparterre)
- Lavish living: the House of Dust (The Lavish World)
- House of Dust (Intermediate Unit 2, AA School)
- The alternative (Fulcrum, AA School)
- Antonino Cardillo rewrites history with the Purple House (Design Boom)
- Data divination (Homebuildlife Macro Trends: Autumn/Winter 2015/16, WGSN)
- Domestic philosophy (Frame)
- From boutique to gallery: fashion, art and architecture (Art / Fashion in 21st Century, Thames & Hudson)
- Another one likes the dust (AD Germany)
- House of Dust (Abitant)
- Abode of the ephemeral (Folio)
- House of Dust, Rome (Architects’ Journal Specification)
- House of Dust (Yellowtrace)
- The Italian national team! (Grazia Russia)
- Dust to dust… (World Architecture News)
- Primordial caverns (Mr Oakley Smith)
- House made of dust (designlines, BauNetz)
- The House of Dust movie (Dezeen Architecture Movies, Dezeen)
- House of Dust (Dezeen)
- The memories within architecture (Ravenel)
- In Rome the House of Dust (Ultrafragola)
- A house, a vision (Casamica, Corriere della Sera)
- You have lied (Radio3 Suite, RAI)
- Architecture is dust (House of Dust)
- House of Dust
- On the mediated representation of architecture (IACSA Newsletter, International Association for Cultural Studies in Architecture)
- Music Holl (Dwell)
- Light drama (Abitant)
- Architecture designs that want to be real (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
- Shopping in the ‘enchanted palace’ (World Architecture News)
- The most current Italy… moves (Condé Nast Traveler)
- The primacy of the image? (Swiss Architects)
2012
- Analog/digital (Building Images, Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum)
- The Cardillo case and the Italian system (Il Giornale dell’Architettura)
- We are mirrors of one another (Opere)
- Bring life back to Birnbeck Island and Piers (The Masterplan, Sternberg)
- Can we do without deception? (BKULT)
- Grandiose castles in the air (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
- All just rendered—and now? (German Architects)
- Postcard from Italy #2 (Frame)
- Affaire A.C. (Itaca Associati)
- Cardillo’s architecture, like Kubrick’s film, has something strongly attractive and repulsive at the same time (GranTouristas)
- This Cardillo is an absolute champion (GranTouristas)
- The man who loved renderings (Studio)
- A Pinocchio of architecture (Hochparterre)
- Fantasy and reality (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
- The Cardillo case: one of the 30 most important architects in the world and the non-existent architecture (Amate l’Architettura)
- I am calm (Spacelab)
- The catalogue of the living (Il Foglio)
- The "ghost" parmigiana house of the famous architect (Gazzetta di Parma)
- The art of architecting "bufale" (Dagospia)
- The architect of the non-existent houses (La Stampa)
- Impostor: Roman ruins (Der Spiegel)
- Arcade
- Beautiful cloning (Falter)
- Purple House (L4_House Design, A&C)
- A matter of fusion (to BE, Libero)
- Playing with the light (Laras)
- Nomura 24 House (L’Arca)
- Architecture: from narrative to interpretative act (Inside Quality Design)
- Nomura 24 House (30 Sicilian Architects Under 40, Lettera 22)
2011
- Impressionist architect (中国建筑装饰装修)
- Taking a position (build Das Architekten-Magazin)
- The Norman legacy (Inside Outside)
- Postmodern Cafe at the Exhibition Road entrance (The London Design Festival 2011 guide, LDF)
- Postmodern Cafe
- Poppies for a fortress (The Architect’s Newspaper)
- Beauty of enlightenment (Pieces’n’melodies)
- Oriental inspiration (Reforma Entremuros)
- The colour purple (World Architecture News)
- Romance with space (Surfaces Reporter)
- Purple House
- A yen for your thoughts? (Inside Outside)
- Nomura 24 House Hyogo Prefecture (italiArchitettura, Utet)
- Experiments (L’architetto italiano)
- Angular residential property now complete (World Architecture News)
- James Stirling: contributions from eight leading international architects (Blueprint)
- The consolidated promise (Ver, Sentir y Contar)
- Tales of light (AND)
2010
- Antonino Cardillo (MAN)
- Game of references (L’Arca)
- Light and rendering (BA Interior and Spatial Design, Chelsea College of Art and Design)
- Sergio Rossi temporary store (L’Arreda Negozi)
- Akin to a Cinema Set (World Architecture News)
- Sameness and otherness (Projekt)
- A heartfelt architecture (Slurp)
- Is Massimiliano Fuksas a classicist? (Design Today)
- Values trascending time (build Das Architekten-Magazin)
- Not exactly a dime a dozen… (World Architecture News)
- Reproduce an ancient classic (景观设计)
- Lonely soul (Reforma Entremuros)
- Wallpaper* and Sergio Rossi unveil an ephemeral boutique in Milan (Wallpaper*)
- Fashion is piqued with design (Le Figaro)
- Men’s Footwear World Tour (Sergio Rossi-Wallpaper*)
- Akin to a Cinema Set
- The Inexact Quality
- House of Twelve (Schön!)
- A house like a dance (H.O.M.E.)
- Identity and difference (Inside Outside)
- Minimalist mansion takes inspiration from the moon (ShortList)
- Personality and difference (Nội Thất)
- Strokes with originality (Reforma Entremuros)
2009
- Physical poetry (DNA Magazine)
- Living on the moon (World Architecture News)
- Architecture and reverberation (Tasarim)
- Mediterranean dreams (World Architecture News)
- Tales of light (John Foxx DNA)
- Architects directory (Wallpaper*)
- Ellipse 1501 House (Collection: Houses, Braun)
- Fixed in time (景观设计)
- Rise of the new titans (Going Places, Malaysia Airlines)
- House of Twelve
- House for Wallpaper*
- Rome and Hadrian’s Villa (Design Today)
- Ellipse 1501 House (Concrete Design, Daab)
- Flamenco-style architecture (新初す)
- Lake house (景观设计)
- A tower (Demanio Re, Il Sole 24 Ore Casa)
- Emotional space (B1 Magazine)
- Plates (Almanac of Architecture & Design 2009, Greenway)
2008
- A medieval soul in ancient Roman character (Tasarim)
- Concrete Moon House
- A world of wonder (Touch Decor)
- The house that clutter forgot (ShortList)
- Modern architecture: Visions of the future (South Italy, Marco Polo)
- Flamenco y arquitectura (Inside Outside)
- The flamenco dance of architecture (景观设计)
- Considering coherency (World Architecture News)
- More temple than dwelling (Home Review)
- Studio Antonino Cardillo (Made)
- Max’s House in a Small Lake
- Vaulted House (L’Arca)
- An ellipse shaped house (Tasarim)
- Geometric houses: oval and arch (景观设计)
- Living in the zone… (World Architecture News)
- Antonino Cardillo (Architectural Dialog 04, Артиндекс)
- House of Convexities
- Void to live (Vox Design)
- Neoplastic dance of simple objects (Tasarim Annual 2008: the Best Project of 2007)
2007
- Vaulted House
- The feeling of movement (Мебелен Дизайн)
- Egypt and lost immortality (Ulisse, Alitalia)
- Birnbeck Island
- Ellipse 1501 House (L’Arca)
- Celestial vision (Home Review)
- Dream aquarium and marine life laboratory (景观设计)
- My concrete heart (Moli)
- Ellipse 1501 House (The Cool Hunter)
- A total eclipse (World Architecture News)
- Villa-Atelier by Maurizio Betta (Il Giornale dell’Architettura)
- Comment (Blueprint)
- Casa in Manziana (L’Arca)
- Ellipse 1501 House
- House of Year 2006 (World Architecture News)
2006-2003
- Double take on space (World Architecture News)
- House in Erice (Siciliarchitettura_06, EXPA)
- Palermo—On display the spaceship city of the young Sicilian architects (la Repubblica)
- Observatory on Italian construction (D’Architettura)
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