Carlo Colombo is a designer both loved and contended by many Made in Italy design companies. Versatile and multifaceted, his design career initially focused on the design and planning of interiors before extending gradually to the architectural sector, in Italy and all over the world. Carlo is a professional who has created high-value artistic projects, attested to by the awards that have studded his career. For him, being an architect means, as Ernesto Rogers said as the Athens Charter was being drafted in 1952, designing “from the spoon to the city,” taking heed of the history of the place to which the project relates and to its context.

The subject of his Master Class is the art of creating forms. In The Art of Shaping, Carlo Colombo explains how a good architect needs first and foremost to be able to interpret needs and desires, and then channel them into a design. His talk looks at back his 25-year career with a selection of the best architectural and design projects as related to the concept of Italian identity, seen through the eyes of the world.