Dogma was founded in 2002 by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara. From the beginning of its activities, Dogma has worked on the relationship between architecture and the city by focusing mostly on urban design and large-scale projects. Parallel to the design projects, the members of Dogma have intensely engaged with teaching, writing, and research, activities that have been an integral part of the office’s engagement with architecture. In the last years, Dogma has been working on a research by design trajectory that focuses on domestic space and its potential for transformation. This work, made of multiple studies and projects, has been exhibited at different venues including the Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2014, the HKW Berlin 2015, the Biennale di Venezia in 2016 and 2021, the Chicago Architectural Biennial in 2017, the Flemish Architectural Institute, the Seoul Architecture Biennale and the Sharjah Architecture Triennale in 2019, the Toronto Metropolitan University and the Triennale di Milano in 2023. The office has published Living and working (The MIT Press, winner of the DAM Architectural Book Award 2022) while the design work of the practice has recently been featured by El Croquis (issue 208/2021). The practice received the Iakov Chernikhov Prize in 2006 and the RIBA Charles Jencks Award in 2023.
Pier Vittorio Aureli teaches at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) where he directs the laboratory ‘Theory and Project of Domestic Space’. He previously taught at the Architectural Association in London and Yale School of Architecture. Aureli studied at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia IUAV, at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam and obtained his PhD from the Technische Universiteit Delft. He is the author of many essays and books, including The Project of Autonomy (2008), The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture (2011), Less is Enough (2013), The City as a Project (2014) and the forthcoming Architecture and Abstraction (2023).
Martino Tattara is a professor at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, where he leads the Institute of Design and Housing (Entwerfen und Wohnen). He previously taught at the Faculty of Architecture at KU Leuven and ETH Studio-Basel. Tattara holds degrees from the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia IUAV and the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. His recent research focuses on the legacies of postwar housing and the transformation of the single-family home. He has co-edited Contested Legacies (2023, with A. Migotto) and the forthcoming What’s Next with Mum and Dad’s House (with F. Zanfi).
Collaborators: Annalisa Massari, Natalie Hase, Elitsa Ilieva, Leo Zumbusch, Ben Curt Standke.
Past collaborators since 2002: Yimin Zhu, Sabina Tattara, Sebastiano Roveroni, Alice Bulla, Julia Tournaire, Agata Mierzwa, Francesco Marullo, Georgios Eftaxiopoulos, Maria Shéhérazade Giudici, Tijn van de Wijdeven, Sara Usai, Dennis Pohl, Valentina Rigoni, Radu Remus Macovei, Lorenz Adriaens, Mauro Forlini, Hubert Holewik, Giovanna Pittalis, Ophélie Dozat, Stéphanie Savio, Elena Calafati, Andrea Migotto, Luciano Aletta, Ezio Melchiorre, Tommaso Mola Meregalli, Matteo Novarino, Ian Lowrie, Laura Bruder, Lilian Pala, Marson Korbi, Barbara Mazza, Marie Oudon, Sofie Bryder Nielsen, Harry Waknine Freire, Gianluca Bernardi, Nicolò Calandrini, Pierre Menoud, Dries Bormans, Antonio Paolillo, Yi Ming Wu, Perla Gísladóttir, Rachel Rouzaud, Anna Panourgia, Theodor Reinhardt, Mariapaola Michelotto, Frederik Dahlqvist, Dag von der Decken, Julie-Anna Barès, Fiona Wiesner, Julia Spackman, Vitus Michel, Vittoria Poletto, Daniele Ceragno, Max Bender, Celeste Tellarini, Karla Radović, Paul Knauer.