Active in Social Design internationally since the last millennium, TAMassociati combines a civil and professional commitment, working in sustainable architecture, urban planning, landscape design, participatory and educational processes, graphic design and social communication. 

The office has won widespread recognition and numerous prizes: in 2013 it received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the excellence represented by the Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery in Sudan, the international Ius-Capocchin prize for construction of the world’s most sustainable pediatric hospital (Port Sudan) and the Curry Stone Design Prize for the overall sustainability (social and environmental) of recent projects built in different parts of the world. In 2014 the practice won the Zumtobel Group Award for innovation and sustainability represented by the pediatric hospital it built in Sudan (Port Sudan). It was named Italian Architect of the year for 2014 “for its ability to enhance the ethical dimension of the profession.” It has been the curatorial team of the Italian Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. In 2017 the firm has won the LafargeHolcim Awards Acknowledgement prize with the project “Maisha film lab, Kampala, Uganda.

TAMassociati has displayed its works at numerous exhibitions and international events, including Architecture is Life at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan, 2014; Five Projects for a Sustainable World, Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris, 2014; AFRITECTURE – Building Social Change at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, 2013; the Triennale di Architettura in Milan, 2012; International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, 2012 and 2010 editions. Currently TAMassociati is working in Uganda, Senegal, Cameroon and Italy. It has offices in Venice, Bologna, Trieste and Paris.

TAM approach 

"taking care in architecture" is a response towards unlimited growth and exploitation; it is a precise will for architectural design rooted in mutual respect towards human beings and environmental tasks, as architecture concerns both of them. “taking care” gives a direction to the many issues of contemporary architecture: art, landscape, economy, technology; and it results in the many works tamassociati is doing for health-care structures, cultural buildings, and public spaces in any context. “taking care” becomes a valuable praxis in architect’s work: the consciousness of creating always new meanings and possibilities for people in accordance to spaces.  

Current Work 2018

1. COOPERATION/HEALTHCARE

• Centre of excellence for Paediatric Surgery in collaboration with RPBW - Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Entebbe, Uganda

2. LOGISTIC AND OFFICE 

• Emergency ngo new headquarters in Milan, (IT) 

• Arper spa new headquarters in Treviso, (IT) 

• Alce Nero spa new headquarters in Bologna, (IT) 

3. HOUSING 

• Social Housing Masterplan + 61 public buildings, Yaoundé, Cameroon 

• Eco-house prototype, Keur Bakar, Senegal 

Mosques

Prayer and Meditation Pavilion

Reference

• http://www.tamassociati.org
• http://www.tamassociati.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/TAM-CV_EN_201809.pdf
• http://www.larchitecturedaujourdhui.fr/tamassociati-before-being-architects-we-are-citizens/?lang=en