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Marco Visconti is the principal at Marco Visconti Architects in Turin, Italy. There he has wrapped his passion for the automobile in to many of the projects he designs. Some of his achievements including the industrial complex at Fiat Melfi, computer centers for railways, showrooms for cars in Berlin, Paris, and London. He designed the halls mechanics, painting, and restaurant for Ferrari in Maranello and conference room of the automobile museum in Turin. His focus is on a sensitivity to global environmental conditions, sustainable standards and low impact materials and building quality.
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SUCCESS QUOTES
“Life is architecture and architecture is a mirror of life.”
CAREER CHALLENGE
Marco looks at taking risks and losing not as failures but learning lessons. He often takes on an architectural competition and while he loses some, he looks at these experiences as learning lessons for improvement.
AH-HA MOMENTS
While working on a large project for Ferrari, their restaurant and worker’s learning center, realizing that he could design something completely different than what traditional industrial architectural design could be. It’s an amazing story.
FIRST SPECIAL CAR
An Alfa Romeo Giulietta
BEST AUTOMOTIVE ADVICE
Reach the limit and learn from this.
GREAT RESOURCE
Museo Dell’Automobile Di Torino – www.museoauto.it
FAVORITE BOOKS
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Un Amore by Dino Buzzati
PARTING ADVICE
Break the selfishness. Because if you are selfish you don’t listen and this is the worst thing that you can do.
HOW TO LEARN MORE ABOUT MARCO
Marco Visconti Architecture – www.mvarchitects.it
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