Associates

Architecture

Profile

Associates Architecture is an architecture and research practice founded in Brescia in 2017 and directed by the Italian-South African duo Nicolò Galeazzi (Brescia, 1987) and Martina Salvaneschi (Johannesburg, 1989).
The team currently includes Claudia Crotti, Alfonso Di Fede, Alessandra Introini, and Maria Lidia Tamburro.

 

Associates Architecture approaches each project by tracing it back to its origin: people, their needs, and the specific conditions of a place. Architecture is understood as a response to these primary conditions.
Rather than applying a predetermined language, the practice investigates what is already present, identifying the needs and latent conditions from which architecture can emerge and establishing new relationships between them. Each project is therefore an act of discovery and transformation of what already exists.
The aim is to develop an architecture rooted in its context, capable of expressing its identity, carrying its memory, and giving form to what is necessary.

Previous collaborators

Pietro Alfano, Vladimir Boaghe, Leonardo Brancaleoni, Ludovica Brizio, Alessandro Capetti, Adèle Cavallin, Mariachiara Cocchiararo, Andrea Deponti, Martina Farinati, Paola Federici, Ludovico Gandellini, Rita Garbelli, Francesco Garbujo, Marta Garonzi, Mattia Hartsarich, Gilberto Lozio, Sofia Macchia, Francesca Madormo, Alessandro Magnani, Alessandro Martin, Mattia Massa, Leonardo Meanti, Riccardo Omacini, Francesco Paderno, Giulia Perniola, Daniele Rigon, Simone Rizzini, Veronica Rossi, Andrea Sanguedolce, Elisa Scarsato, Marco Setaro, Marta Staffoni, Janja Šušnjar, Carlo Tamai, Nicole Tombini, Giacomo Verdinelli, Alexia Van Hove, Francesco Villella, Marina Volpi, Nicholas Zambon, Simone Zambon, Elisa Zanaglio.

 

 

VICOLO DELLE SGUIZZETTE 10
25121 BRESCIA, IT

 

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Exhibitions (selected)

VITALITÀ DELL’ARCHITETTURA ITALIANA 1946-2026, ROME

PREMIO ITALIANO DI ARCHITETTURA 2025, MILAN

VIEWPORT, MILAN

PREMIO ITALIANO DI ARCHITETTURA 2023, MILAN

10 ARCHITETTURE ITALIANE, MILAN

COMUNITÀ RESILIENTI, VENICE

CA’ ASI YOUNG EUROPEAN ARCHITECTS, VENICE

ECONOMY OF MEANS, LISBON

TODO DIA/EVERYDAY, SÃO PAULO

ARCIPELAGO ITALIA, VENICE

Lectures (selected)

CASABELLA LABORATORIO, 2026, MILAN
MIT, 2025, CAMBRIDGE

QUERÉTARO, 2025, SANTIAGO DE QUERÉTARO

CASA DA ARQUITECTURA, 2024, PORTO

MANTOVA ARCHITETTURA, 2024, MANTUA

AAM, 2023, MENDRISIO

POLITECNICO DI MILANO, 2022, MILAN

TRIENNALE DI MILANO, 2022, MILAN

ADI DESIGN MUSEUM, 2020, MILAN

GOA COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, 2018, GOA

Honours (selected)

MAXXI NXT 2026, FINALIST
PIRANESI AWARD 2025, FINALIST
BIGMAT NATIONAL PRIZE ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY 2025, WINNER
PREMIO ITALIANO DI ARCHITETTURA 2025, MENTION
PREMIO ITALIANO DI ARCHITETTURA 2023, FINALIST
IN/ARCHITETTURA LOMBARDIA 2020, MENTION
BIG SEE ARCHITECTURE AWARD 2019, WINNER
PIRANESI AWARD 2019, FINALIST

Publications (selected)

6850 JOURNAL 2

CASABELLA 977
BAUWELT 1.2026

ARQUITECTURA VIVA 275
ABOUT: 1

TACCUINI D’ARCHITETTURA 1

ABITARE 634

AMAG 34

LOTUS 174

CASABELLA 917