TALE OF GESTURES

The methodology of praxis in the work of Francesca Torzo

In an architectural scenario obsessed by success and consumption, few are the architects who attempt to ignore this attraction and escape its standardizing power. Francesca Torzo obstinately and silently responds to this magnetism by practicing an architecture that is aware of its role in society. The architect is striving for the internal coherence of his work that sees conception, design, construction site and built work tenaciously linked by a constant and continuous action of thought and body. This is apparently enabled by an artisanal approach to architecture in which hand drawing and model making are valuable tools of investigation and verification that accompany all stages of the process and allow control and management of the work, from its conception to its realization. Construction techniques and materials are experimented and verified firsthand at her studio table.

In this way, Francesca Torzo practices an architecture that does not start from absolute assumptions but, with an attitude of continuous research, wants to learn from the existing by making a personal contribution.