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To the attention of Jon Foley, Application for the position of Part 1 Architectural Assistant. In the following letter I would like to explaine why I want to be part of DKA. I will take this chance to introduce myself - showing how I meet the criteria of the post found on dezeenjobs.com - and hopefully this could be a new beginning. First of all, I have learned about the existence of David Kohn Architects when, in one of my visits to Barcelona, the architects and friends Flores & Prats gave me a copy of the Magazine QUADERNS. In that issue it was published the Refurbishment of an apartment on carrer Avinyo, Barcelona. Ever since I’ve keept and eye opened on your work. What interest me in your work is your approach: “Dal cucchiaio alla città” as Ernesto Nathan Rogers once said. The typical approach of a Milanese architect. Capable to design from the spoon to the city. As a matter of fact I am interested in all the different scale of architecture from the interior and its details to the urban scale and the landscape. Thus I have always tried to create a path that would help me to learn and understand how to work in such different scales from both my academic education and the work experiences I have done. While being a student I have worked and collaborated for both architects and landscape designers. I have taken classes of Landscape Architecture as exchange student at TU Delft and I have graduated at Politecnico di Milano with a dissertation on landscape photography as a critical tool to read the environment in which we live. Once graduated in Architecture I kept collaborating with YellowOffice in Milano mainly as draftman for final designs and as assistant on landscape design competitions. Meanwhile I was working as freelance photographer and assistant photographer.
Filippo Abrami (1986) graduated in Architecture (M.Sc.) from the International programme of Politecnico di Milano with a dissertation on landscape photography as a critical tool entitled “Does landscape make photography or it’s photography that produces landscape(s)?”. While being a student he worked with Flores & Prats Architects in Barcelona and YellowOffice Landscape Design in Milan. In 2013 he has been recipient of the Leonardo da Vinci Grant and moved to Portugal. With Paratelier participated and won several international competitions in architecture and landscape design, he also acquired direct experience in construction site and in the production of wooden and cork furniture. After that he moved back to Barcelona working mainly on the New Sala Beckett Theater a project now under construction. Currently lives and works in Brescia.
I won the Leonardo da Vinci Grant I have moved to Portugal where I have started working with Paratelier. I was responsable for the competition team and later I have been involved in the production of furniture and in the realization of proposals for the refurbishment of an old rammed earth house in Alentejo as well as other proposals for the same client. After a short period in Lisbon as freelancer doing competitions and looking for a job I have moved to Barcelona to work with Flores & Prats Architects. I was in charge of the model making room, coordinating the work of the interns due to my previuos experience in the office and I was working mainly on the New Sala Beckett Theater, a project now under construction. My role was both of draftman and model maker supervisor.Further more I have collaborated editing and preparing materials for the partecipation of the office at the Venice Biennale and for the making of the book “Pensado a mano/Though by hand”. Recently I came back home for family reasons and I am willing to start a new experience abroad, this time in London. Kind Regards, Filippo Abrami
DKA
Date of birth: July 21st, 1986 Place of birth: Brescia Nationality: Italian Contact: Via Monte Ortigara, 79b 25128 Brescia, Italy +39 345 8469565 filippo.abrami[at]gmail.com www.filippoabrami.com
EDUCATION Politecnico di Milano M.Sc. Architecture Campus Leonardo Milan, Italy Sep 2009 – Dec 2012 TU Delft Landscape Architecture Exchange student Delft, the Netherlands Feb 2009 – Jul 2009 Politecnico di Milano B.Sc. Architecture Campus Bovisa Milan, Italy Sep 2005 – Sep 2009
WORK EXPERIENCE Flores & Prats Architects Barcelona, Spain April 2014 – Dec 2014
Politecnico di Milano Photographer and editor of "Miaw.2/forests" blog Milan, Italy Sep 2011 Istituto Europeo di Design Fashion photographer for "IED - My Own Show" Milan, Italy Feb 2011 Flores & Prats Architects Architectural photographer Barcelona, Spain Aug 2010
GRANTS IN/ARCH Leonardo da Vinci Grant 2013 POLIMI Erasmus Programme Scholarship 2009
Paratelier Lisbon, Portugal Jun 2013 – Dec 2013
COMPETITIONS / PRIZES
YellowOffice Milan, Italy Mar 2011 – Mar 2013
Laguna Landscape (with Annachiara Leardini and Stefano Serventi) Shortlisted
Flores & Prats Architects Barcelona, Spain Oct 2008 – Jan 2009
Improvement of pedastrian and cycle path of Varese lake (with Paratelier) Third Prize
ACADEMIC TUTOR
La città del Parco Nazionale del Cilento, Vallo di Diano e Alburni (with Paratelier) Special Mention
IUAV La Stanza Rubata Prof. Ricardo Flores Prof. Eva Prats Venice, Italy Workshop Summer 2010
PHOTOGRAPHY Giovanni Hänninen Assistant photographer Milan, Italy Feb 2013 Luca Finotti Back-stage photographer Milan, Italy Jan 2013
WORKSHOPS Super Monumentos Urbanos Lisbon, Portugal 2013 Bridging The Gaps in Fatih Sultan Mehmet, Studies for a possible smart city approach in informal urban contexts. Istanbul, Turkey 2012 Milano. Scali Ferroviari e Trasformazioni Urbane. Milan, Italy 2009
Micro-Urbanistic interventions in the Post-Socialist Russian city. Moscow, Russia 2009
EXPOSITIONS Festival del Verde e del Paesaggio (with Sara Gangemi) 16 May 2014 - 18 May 2014 Follie d’Autore Rome, Italy EXD’13 (with Paratelier) 16 Nov 2013 – 26 Nov 2013 Experimenta Design - Tangenciais Lisbon, Portugal Greenfest’13 (with Paratelier) 3 Oct 2013 – 6 Oct 2013 Centro de Congressos do Estoril Lisbon, Portugal Ambiente 2013 (with YellowOffice) 15 Feb 2013 – 19 Feb 2013 Talents - Ambiente Messe Frankfurt, Germany ICFF 2012 (with YellowOffice) 19 May 2012 – 22 May 2012 Desingboom mart New York, USA Fuorisalone 2012 (with YellowOffice) 17 Apr 2012 – 22 Apr 2012 Kidsroomzoom2! Milan, Italy Fuorisalone 2011 (with YellowOffice) 17 Apr 2011 – 22 Apr 2011 Kidsroomzoom2! e Appartamento LAGO Brera Milan, Italy
LANGUAGES Italian (Native), English (Advanced), Spanish (High), Portuguese (High)
SKILL & ABILITIES Adobe Illustrator (Advanced), Adobe Photoshop (Advanced), Adobe Indesign (Advanced), Model Making (Advanced), Autocad (High), Adobe Camera Raw (High), Adobe Light Room (Medium), Rhino (Basic), Sketch-Up (Basic), Vectorworks (Basic)
Filippo Abrami