SCAPE is an Italian architecture firm with offices in Rome and Paris that has made Internationalisation its main strength. Conceived as an idea in May 2002 by Ludovica Di Falco, Francesco Marinelli and Paolo Mezzalama, the firm –scape s.p.a. was concretely established in 2004. Alessandro Cambi joined as fourth partner in 2005. They set up an office in Paris in 2008 and they founded a French architecture firm, Offscape s.a.s., in 2013.
Alessandro Cambi was born in Siena on 6th June 1976. He enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Florence in 1996 and graduated in July 2002. He worked with architectural practices in Siena, Paris and Rome, while continuing his own architectural research through design projects and competitions. The result of this line of activity was his affiliation with SCAPE in January 2005. He has tutored national and international workshops and held conferences at the university architectural faculties of Ferrara, Genoa, Reggio Calabria and Rome. Since 2010 he has been a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Roma Tre, and also at the University of Ferrara since 2012.
Francesco Marinelli was born in Rome on 7th November 1975. He entered the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Roma Tre in 1994, where he followed a line of study involving architecture and the city and architecture and landscape in their various forms. He graduated in 2002. He has tutored and coordinated numerous workshops, both national and international, and has held conferences at the Faculty of Architecture in Milan, Genoa, Florence, Reggio Calabria, Rome, the Pratt Institute-Rome and the University of Waterloo-Rome. From 2002 to 2010, he collaborated on courses of Design and Planning with the Faculty of Architecture, Roma Tre. Since 2010 he has been a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture, Roma Tre. In 2002, he set up the SCAPE project with Paolo Mezzalama and Ludovica Di Falco.
Ludovica Di Falco was born in Naples on 17th September 1975. In 1993 she enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture at Roma Tre and in 1996 studied at the Technische Universität, Vienna, where she was able to develop her research on the theme of residential building. In 2001 she took a first class degree with a project on the restoration of the Bagnoli industrial zone in Naples, mentored by Alessandro Anselmi. After working for with various Roman architectural practices, due to her interest in France and French culture, she moved to Paris, where, in 2002 -2003, she collaborated with Buffi Associés SA. At the same time, in 2002, she set up the SCAPE project with Paolo Mezzalama and Francesco Marinelli. Since 2010, she has been a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture at Roma Tre. She lives now between Paris and Zurich
Paolo Mezzalama was born in Rome on 4th June 1975. In 1993 he enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture at Roma Tre, where he developed his interest in architectural planning, above all at an urban development level. He graduated in February 2001. In 2001-2002, collaborating with Studio Salvioni in Rome, he worked on various residential building projects and, with Francesco Cellini, on the project for a housing complex in Orvieto and the new FAO headquarters in Rome. From 2001 to 2009 he was assistant to Stefano Cordeschi at the architectural planning course at the Faculty of Architecture at Roma Tre. He has held conferences in the university faculties of Milan, Rome, Waterloo-Rome and the March School of Architecture in Moscow. In 2002 he set up the SCAPE project with Francesco Marinelli and Ludovica Di Falco. Since 2010, he has been a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture, Roma Tre.
