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
+39 030 3375901
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