(1966) Having graduated from Milan’s Polytechnic with a thesis on the relationship between philosophy and architecture, Calzavara is an architect and freelance journalist, and also works in planning, teaching, critiquing and curating. He studied under Corrado Levi and attended the art and philosophy workshop “Thinking of Art” with Jacques Derrida, Carlo Sini and Studio Azzurro. His works are showcased at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the Triennale di Milano, the Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art in Genoa, and the Urban Center in Milan.
He writes for trade magazines such as L’Architettura cronache e storia (with Bruno Zevi), Abitare (with Italo Lupi) and Domus, and has published books with Italian and international publishers (IEEM/Polipress, Corraini, Libria, Maggioli. Skira, MCCM, Creations, Hoepli, Lars Mueller Publisher). Among his most important curatorships: the "Laboratorio Italia" section of the "Ailati" exhibition at the XII Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010 (co curator) and the “Anni Luce” exhibition at the Triennale di Milano in 2016 He has taught at Milan’s Polytechnic and since 2017 has been a professor at NABA, the city’s New Academy of Fine Arts He has been collaborating with Abitare since 2015 and has been editor at Inventario (XXIII Compasso d’Oro 2014 since 2010 He lives, works and draws in Milan.
