There is no aesthetic signature to the diverse buildings produced by Studio Farris since its formation in Antwerp, Belgium, in 2008. They range from a renovated farmhouse with a quietly subversive relationship between new glass and rustic brick to an intentionally iconic “woven” tower proposed for Dubai. What connects them, suggests founder Giuseppe Farris, 43, is not a house style but its opposite—a pragmatic approach that eschews preconceptions and proceeds from the critical interrogation of a brief.
It was this propensity to question that guided Farris’s path to Antwerp from his home on the Italian island of Sardinia. He studied first in Venice, under Aldo Rossi and Manfredo Tafuri, before moving abroad in search of alternatives to Italy’s architectural conservatism. In London he shadowed a friend at the experimentally inclined Architectural Association, though he did not formally enroll. “Super Dutch” architecture was then grabbing international attention, and Farris headed to the Netherlands and neighboring Belgium in 2001 to take advantage of “a very energetic moment in those countries when every studio was looking for new people and ideas.”
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