Romolo Stanco
Architect and Director in Desenzano del Garda, Italia
Romolo Stanco
Architect and Director in Desenzano del Garda, Italia
I am not my work but what I do is good enough to tell you who I am . It’s a challenge, an ongoing attempt to overcome the freshly reached result, a way to always put everything into question without fear of finding once again myself with a clean sheet without reference points, without teachers and without a compass. Who called me "maverick" has not gone very far from reality. Has its advantages and its difficulties. Effectively it’s difficult to define just what I do. I conceive things, I design them, I try to push the project where reality has not yet arrived, in a borderline area between creativity, science fiction and concreteness . In the projects of architecture, design, interior, cycling, fashion as well as in life, I mix the knowledge gained in my study courses (the first two years at the faculty of physics were followed by a degree in architecture at the Politecnico in Milan, graduating with honors and winning numerous international competitions) with everything I assimilate thanks to curiosity and interest, without worrying about its origin: research, biomedicine, street art , music, cinema, sports... These are the reasons why the evolution of my projects is non-linear but ever- changing, in a continuous interaction with the world of people and the contexts in which they live. "Adaptive" would say a friend . International magazines speak about "projects with the firm intention of combining logical opposites" (Michele Costanzo on "Architettura, cronache e storia"), "Design Magic" (Laura Traldi, on “Curve”) and "Design as Art” (Karen Klages on “The Chicago Tribune”), while "La Repubblica" even calls me "little genius”. All "WOW!" of course! but I do not see these things as a result, only as a moment of a journey, a "frame" of a continuous path crystallized in an instant into a concrete form. I live for challenges in sport, in work and in life, I enjoy it and I get excited about what is new, and I have the crazy ambition to continue to change and learn even if it's hard, tiring and difficult as climbing Mont Ventoux by bike.