Themes
The motifs that recur across Cardillo’s work and bind distant projects to one another: arches, vaults, enclosures, forms, fields of colour. A theme is not what a work is, but what it carries and repeats
Enclosures
A selection of works by Cardillo shaped by the enclosure, from a laurel-garden pavilion and a wharf on the water to halls bounded by marble, limestone and timber
2023 – 2009
Forms
A curated exploration of Cardillo’s works, each associated with a keyword naming a psychological figure: twenty-one entries, from Arch, Dust and Grotto to Moon, Shadow and Twilight, that open alternative readings of the corpus
2023 – 2007
Arches
A selective record of works featuring the elongated arch, from galleries and dwellings to sculpted monoliths: passages, fissures and threaded sequences across Cardillo’s corpus
2023 – 2011
Colour fields
A series of works distinguished by the use of uniform colour fields, indexed through four recurring colours: gold, green, grey and pink. The record explores the relationship between colour, spatial perception and surface continuity across Cardillo’s corpus
2021 – 2011
Trilithon
A selection of works by Cardillo in which a trilithon opening or portal marks the hall, from House of Dust to Paradiso
2018 – 2013
Vaults
A selection of houses of Cardillo’s early corpus, each shaped by a barrel vault, symmetrical or asymmetrical, covering curved and rectangular halls
2011 – 2008
Marina
A documented archive of Cardillo’s works along Trapani’s Viale Regina Elena, produced between 1994 and 2002 for the Facoltà di Architettura, Università di Palermo. The collection includes large-scale proposals such as hotels, aquaria, offices, restaurants, bars and piers, reflecting an integrated approach to urban and structural design
2002 – 1994