Recipient Advanced Systems Limited student awards, Loopscape in San Filiu de Llobregat, 2009. Valerio Morabito is Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Landscape Architecture, and Professor at the Universita’ Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria in Italy, Department of Architecture. A leader in the Italian construction industry for three generations, the Morabito family established what is now Italy’s second largest general contractor company.Passionate about design and its potential to transform the way we live, his own success in high-end residential and commercial real estate development includes the renovation of a 45,000 square foot office building in Rome’s business district and the full remodeling and renovation of an 18th century building in the historic heart of Rome.70 Greene and 45 East 74th Street are his two premiere projects in New York, and are both reaching record sales per square foot.Beach House 8 is his first development in Florida, where he is partnering with leading local players such as real estate developer Ugo Colombo of CMC.With a passion for architecture and design, Edward is involved in all facets of the development process, including acquisition strategies, selection and management of design consultants and contractors, budget analysis, and coordination of the complete development team. The strange process of “writing” carried out with the excavation of the mines (the sections and plans of the mountain interior are the riches of an ancient and potent poetry, written using a popular alphabet) and with the morphology of the territory modified (extensive writing of marginal spaces dominated by a simple story), reached a point in which the unsustainability of the economic process suddenly immobilised the landscape of the mines.The landscape of the Iglesiente territory comprises two fundamental poetic concepts; a more evident natural-artificial relationship and a less overt internal-external relationship. Designer cooprogetti.Doctor of Philosophy, University mediterranea degli studi di reggio calabria, Italy, 1993.Professor University mediterranea degli studi di reggio calabria.
It is in the wilderness of cities rather than in nature that the imagination of these landscape drawings comes to life. For millennia men have burrowed into the geology of this island. Valerio Morabito is an architect with a PhD in Landscape architecture, where he explored the relationship between abstract art with forms and images of Landscape. The territory of Iglesias, its mines and its extraordinary historical and cultural heritage is a landscape perfectly suited to tourism, not mass tourism but tourism able to bring about lasting changes to produce economic answers capable of recreating permanent identities in a new landscape.The development of a territory is complex and difficult to understand in its political, institutional, administrative and especially economic relations, where various participants compete for management roles and make decisions on rules and regulations to transform areas by planning processes of varying complexity. He is adjunct Professor at University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches Studio Design and Representation of Landscape.
A book with his works is going to be printed in China “The extended representation of Landscape”.