Gallery: Plunder

Antonio Scarponi, founder of Conceptual Devices, is an Italian architect and designer currently based in Zürich. Read the full interview with Antonio here.

 

01_A. Scarponi, Malthus. A Meal a Day, 2010.

02_A. Scarponi, Orto Perpetuo, 2014.

03_A.Scarponi, ELIOO 30, 2013.

04_R. De Luca, A. Scarponi, Hotello, 2013.

05_A. Scarponi / Conceptual Devices, Urban Farmers Strategic Design, 2011.

06_A. Scarponi, Malthus. A Meal a Day, Components, 2011.

07_A. Scarponi, ELIOOO, Book Cover, 2013.

08_A. Scarponi / Conceptual Devices, Hedron, 2011.

09_A. Scarponi / Conceptual Devices, Harvesting Station, 2012.

10_A. Scarponi, TANTOOO. A fairy tale bean bag, 2011.

11_A. Scarponi, Readykea (Luther), 2012.

12_ A. Scarponi, Readykea (Catalogue), 2012.

13_ A. Scarponi, Just Undo it, Instruction Drawings, 2010.

14_A. Scarponi, Just Undo It (Computer Sleeve) 2009.

15_ A. Scarponi, Design Narrative Manifesto, 2010.

In Conversation: Antonio Scarponi

Antonio Scarponi, founder of Conceptual Devices, is an Italian architect and designer currently based in Zürich. Last year, he released ELIOOO—a book about how to create your own hydroponic garden with IKEA parts—using a crowd-funded publishing model. With a translator, he recently completed the Japanese version.

Antonio talks to Libby O’Loghlin about the attraction of crowd-funding for publishing, and about architecture as concrete poetry.

Image: screenshot 16.11.2014, Google Image search for Antonio Scarponi

Antonio, you are very hard to fit in a (word) box! You publish books and teach, and you design all manner of things from hotels and other public and private spaces … to clothing and ‘home’ furnishings. If there were a theme running through your work, what would it be?

I am an architect. I do architecture. Architecture today does not mean necessarily a building. I think architecture today is a sort of a geography.