Ceramica Sant’Agostino commissioned and conceived the exhibition “Peace Builder: Architecture for Peace.” This show, inaugurated at the Milan headquarters (Via Garibaldi 95) on November 24, brings together a series of hand-drawn works exploring the theme of “building peace” through architecture. Drawing thus becomes not only an expressive tool, but also a manifesto of ethical and civic intention.
Ten leading Italian architects have translated this reflection into a freehand drawing: an intimate yet political gesture that restores to paper its value as an ethical statement. The result is a poetic geography of peace, made up of different yet converging visions, where line, light, and space become a language of reconciliation, empathy, and listening.
In the drawing by Angelo Micheli for AMDL Circle, we find the lightness of a “blade of grass” resisting the wind: a fragile and vital balance symbolizing a peace born from the dialogue between rationality and instinct.
Alfonso Femia, with the intense and human line that characterizes his work for Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia, evokes the embrace as a universal gesture—a handshake that becomes an architecture of mutual trust.
In the work of Gianandrea Barreca for Barreca & La Varra, peace becomes a multiplication of viewpoints: one hundred windows, one hundred ways of seeing the world, in a structure that welcomes diversity as a foundation.
Sonia Calzoni, with the sensitivity that defines her work, translates peace into a dialogue between sacred architectures: spaces of spirituality approaching one another until they touch, suggesting a possible encounter between faiths and cultures.
In the drawing by Maurizio Lai for Lai Studio, light takes center stage: it passes through wounds and shadows, transforming memory into guidance and pain into design, in a touching and illuminating narrative of rebirth.
Claudio Calabrese for MAC Milano instead chooses the ironic lightness of “mischievous” planets that, though tempted by conflict, prefer harmony: a cosmic parable on the value of choice.
Gerardo Sannella for MYGG architecture imagines an ideal polis where trees become masters of coexistence, and beneath their canopies one hears the ancient sound of peace.
In the work of Leonardo Cavalli and Wilma Bonelli for One Works, the reflection focuses on language: an essential stroke that becomes a manifesto against rhetoric, an invitation to a “new peace” built on truth and balance.
Chiara Caberlon, with Matilde Giannetti for Studio Chiara Caberlon Architetti, transforms the theme into sound: waves and vibrations that become lines and skylines, drawing a landscape of shared quiet.
Finally, Claudio Saverino for Vudafieri–Saverino Partners leads us into a field of violent reds and blacks from which a luminous ellipse emerges: a dynamic, welcoming figure, a symbolic space of encounter and cohesion.
From this project emerges a collective narrative, in which each drawing becomes an act of trust in the power of imagination. Because peace, before being built, must first be drawn.
These works express a shared belief: that architecture can still be a universal language—not only for building, but for reconnecting, listening, and giving meaning back to our shared way of inhabiting the world.
The exhibition is curated by Platform Architecture through Simona Finessi, creator of numerous cultural initiatives in the field of design culture, and Angelo Dadda, Creative Director.
Ph. Domenico Lops
@studio_fotografico_lops
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