Marco Casagrande

Marco Casagrande ( born May 7, 1971 in Turku, Finland) is a Finnish architect, writer and professor of architecture. Casa Grande was born into a well-off Finnish- Italian Catholic family. He grew up in Finnish Lapland on in the city Ylitornio, which he left only for the study. He studied at the Technical University of Helsinki (until 2001 ).

Mercenary and author

After his service in the Finnish army in 1993, Casa Grande volunteered at the Bosnian Croat defense forces ( HVO). Under the pseudonym Luca Moconesi he wrote his controversial book " Mostarin shares liftarit / hitchhiker on the road to Mostar (WSOY 1997) " about his experiences in the Bosnian civil war. Based on the descriptions of war crimes perpetrated by the main character of his autobiographical narrative, he himself came under suspicion of Kriegsverbrechertums. In his defense, he argued later, his book was in fact a work of fiction.

Artist and architect

As a finalist in the " Emerging Architecture competition ( 1999) ," awarded by the British architectural journal "Review 's " Marco Casagrande and Sami Rintala his former partners were invited to participate in the Biennale 2000 in Venice.

The rapporteur of the New York Times chose her project " 60 minutes Man" as his personal favorite. In this project, Casagrande & Rintala planted an oak wood in an old barge, which was filled with composted soil: that amount of soil that produces the city of Venice in a period of 60 minutes at human waste.

Casa Grandes complex architectural work covers the field of architecture, urban & environmental planning, public art, circus arts and the arts of other disciplines.

Looking for architectures of the unconscious, of the truth in the real world and the connection between modern man and nature, he believes that man should not be blinded by stress, economic pressures or our unlimited access to entertainment and information on the Internet. What is real, is valuable.

Casa Grande was appointed professor of ecological urban planning at Tamkang University in Taiwan after he transformed an illegal settlement of urban smallholders in an experimental laboratory of ecological city planning in the "Treasure Hill " project. Decisive for the entire process, the amounts for reactions from the "Treasure Hill " community.

His theory of "City of the third generation " takes the post-industrial urban conditions as a by machines destroyed environment true - by human nature and architects as a design shamans only interpreted in terms of greater order of collective memory.

Floating Sauna, 2002

Treasure Hill, 2003

Chen House, 2008

Bug Dome, 2009

Sandworm, 2012