YellowOffice
corso Indipendenza, 14
20129 Milano
t. +39 02 36585862
info@yellowoffice.it
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YellowOffice, founded in 2008 and based in Milan, is a firm focused on landscape architecture and urbanism.
YellowOffice’s work combines research and design. It envisions cultural landscapes from a double perspective: social and ecological. One side aims at the identity and memory of places and topics of social inclusion. The other focuses on climate change adaptation, ecological processes, and biodiversity. YellowOffice is regularly involved in projects centered on the public realm, among the latest:
- – Part of the winning team in the competition for The New European Library of Information and Culture in Milan, Nuova BEIC (2022), which is currently in construction.
- – Part of the shortlisted team for The International Concept Design Competition EXPO ALBANIA for the Albania National Territorial Planning Agency (2024 – second prize.)
- – Part of the shortlisted team for The Competitive Dialogue Procurement procedure Nový Hlavák: the New Main Station District in Prague for the revitalization of Vrchlického sady Park, new construction of the tramway line Muzeum – Bolzanova and the reconstruction of the New Terminal Hall of the Prague Main Railway Station (2023 – third prize).
YellowOffice has been awarded international prizes and competitions. Among these: Skodra 2024, Tirana 2024, Prague 2023, Milan 2022, Locarno 2021, St Gallen 2021, Berat 2015, Tirana 2014, Rome 2012, Geneve 2012, Turin 2010, Carso Goriziano 2010. The office has also been part of exhibitions such as the 14th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, the first Chicago Architecture Biennial, and the first landscape garden exhibition at Agliè Castle in Turin.
Francesca Benedetto (1981) studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. In 2008, she founded YellowOffice, a firm focused on landscape architecture and urbanism, combining research and design. The practice brings together several scales of design processes: from territorial strategies, urban planning, public spaces, parks, pavilions, and cemeteries to objects, interiors, videos, illustrations, maps, and exhibitions.
The recurrent themes of this research revolve around the city and nature, ideas of public spaces, and geographic disciplines, always observed through the lens of visual arts.
Francesca Benedetto also works in academic fields, teaching and participating in panels and conferences in major Universities (Politecnico di Milano, Cass Cities – London Metropolitan University, University of Limerick, NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Domus Academy, IED Istituto Europeo di Design).
In 2014, she coordinated the Master in Land Design at IED (Istituto Europeo di Design) in Cagliari, Italy, and in 2015, she worked as an Italian ambassador for IED.
In 2016, she started teaching at Harvard Graduate School of Design in the Department of Landscape Architecture. Her research areas are Urbanism, Representation, and Ecology.
