Time

2025–2003

A chronological timeline of events and milestones marking Antonino Cardillo’s research journey, presented in reverse order to support historical analysis

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2025

Elogio del Grigio (Casabella, forthcoming)
The young architecture 4 (D’Arch – Dipartimento di Architettura di Palermo)
M86-M88 Palazzo Rhinozeros, Off Club, Vestibule Domus Aurea (Architekturführer Rom[↗], Edition Axel Menges)
Simulation as hermeneutics of reality (Artbox, La7)

2024

Ministerial reception. Grand station at the airport[↗] (In the Short or Long Term: Essays and Reportages, Czernin)
Architecture of a historiography: antoninocardillo.com (California Polytechnic State University)
Trapani: Coral Cave (Sizilien 2024, Reise Know-How)
Chiaroscuro composition[↗] (Yellowtrace)
The anthropology in the architecture of Antonino Cardillo[↗] (La Camera dello Scirocco)
Conversation with Paolo Portoghesi[↗] (L’Arca International)
In Rome, an architecture festival also involves restaurants and hotels[↗] (Food & Wine Italia)
Anima restaurant and club (Off Club)[↗] (Open House Roma 2024)
The anthropology in the architecture of Antonino Cardillo (Il Mare di Mezzo)
Clean lines (Stavebníctvo a bývanie)
House of Arianna[↗] (L’Arca International)
Elogio del Grigio House (Interiors Korea)
Elegy in grey[↗] (BauNetz)
A miniature palace, diaphanous and material, on the Garda[↗] (Elle Decor)
House of Arianna. A place in times[↗] (Gooood)
Elogio del Grigio. Castiglione delle Stiviere, Italia[↗] (Divisare Journal)
The Enchanting Gray Palette[↗] (Dsignbit)
Elogio del Grigio House[↗] (ArchDaily)

2023

Antonino Cardillo designs Elogio del Grigio house as “miniature palazzo”[↗] (Dezeen)
Elogio del Grigio
The adventures of LucasArts and Lucasfilm Games in the history of video games[↗] (Lucasdelirium)
Mammacaura[↗] (L’Arca International)
The intervention in the Ettore and Infersa salt pans[↗] (Abitare la Terra)
Antropology in architecture (Museo Agostino Pepoli)
Open doors to architecture (Corriere della Sera Roma)
Open House Rome is back, ‘Equilibrium’ the theme of 2023[↗] (Adnkronos)
House of Dust (Open House Roma 2023)

2022

References in a contemporary context (TU Dresden)
FAKEcollage. I don’t believe my eyes! (Università di Genova)
Trapani: Coral Cave (Sizilien 2022, Reise Know-How)
Restoration of the headquarters of the Trapani Superintendence: Why is the cornice already ruined?[↗] (TP24)
Trapani (Sizilien 2022, DuMont)
Ten residential interiors showcasing exposed plaster walls[↗] (Dezeen)
Specus Corallii (Monsignor Gaspare Gruppuso: The Priest with a Heart of Gold, L’Anfora di Calliope)
Moodboard[↗] (ADI Museum KaleidosGames)
Mammacaura (Identità dell’Architettura Italiana)

2021

Open House Rome, inside the architecture (Corriere della Sera Roma)
Open House Rome 2021, to discover the most secret city[↗] (Vanity Fair)
Brave new Italian world (Villas)
House of Dust (Open House Roma 2021)
Mammacaura[↗] (Casabella)
Memories for Cruising
Mammacaura
Erice, environmental damage to the Garden of the Balio[↗] (TP24)
Apartment interior design: Outstanding spaces around the globe[↗] (Wallpaper*)
Colours. Emotion through lights[↗] (Chelsea College of Arts and Design)
Top inspiring Palermo interior designers[↗] (Rug Society)
New retail scenarios[↗] (Politecnico di Milano)

2020

Ten pink interiors that range from rose blush to bright coral[↗] (Dezeen)
The best fusion restaurants in Milan and Rome[↗] (Icon)
17 wonderful shops to visit (even if you don’t buy anything)[↗] (Porcelanosa Lifestyle)
Exploration of the atmosphere in architecture[↗] (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Specus Corallii. Trapani, Italy[↗] (Divisare Journal)
Typology: Nightclub (The Architectural Review)
Lecture series: Dessau Talks (Next to Bauhaus)
Inside/Out: Lecture series (Proximities: Inhabitations: Identities: Interior Design RCA 2018-19, Royal College of Art)

2019

The poetry of architecture[↗] (Imagicasa)
Granularity (étapes)
A synchronicity of cultures and civilisations (Bauhaus Dessau DIA)
Earth and pink (Politecnico di Milano)
Sicilian modern architectural marvels (Sizilien 2019, DuMont)
10 projects of Antonino Cardillo every architect must visit! (Re-thinking the Future)
Archetypes of imagery (Abitare la Terra)
Specus Corallii (Architecture and Eroticism, Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης)
Antonino Cardillo, House of Dust e Zak McKracken[↗] (Lucasdelirium)
From Zak McKracken to House of Dust (Rome Video Game Lab 2019)
Takero Shimazaki: Colours in the shadows[↗] (Casabella)
New Roman bar in Byzantine style (La Vie)
The making of Rome’s Off Club (Royal College of Art)
The architect as a storyteller (Competitionline)
From Off the counter is a stage[↗] (Bar Giornale)

2018

Inherent color and material color (Thinking Color in Space, Birkhäuser)
The symmetry of the night (DEAR Magazin)
Olfactory in design (Middlesex University)
Paradise. Rome, Italy[↗] (Divisare Journal)
Saturday selects: Week of September 17, 2018 (Sight Unseen)
Roman restaurant[↗] (Интерьер+Дизайн)
Departure info: Roman empire. Off Club, Rome (Wallpaper*)
Off Club
Modern architectural style (Sicilian Visitors–Culture, Lulu)
Specus Corallii (Sicily–Trapani: Project Internationalization, Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Gent)
Specus Corallii Reflection (California Polytechnic State University)
Our top three favourite works (Atelier Lumira)

2017

Uncanny beauty: Unveiling a prison interior[↗] (Idea Journal)
What kind of amazing houses are there in Japan? 30 diverse and unique Japanese homes[↗] (Phm Zine)
The architect of a generation (Promostyl)
Grottoes, vaults, arches and policromy (Heinze ArchitekTOUR)
The sexuality of architecture (Mitte/Rand Salon)
House of Dust (Cover All 2018–2019, Noroo Pantone Color Institute)
Evocation, abstraction, illusion (Casabella)
A house that pays tribute to the earth and the caverns[↗] (AD Mexico)
Green class (Marie Claire Maison)
Churches etc.[↗] (Centre for Theology and Arts, Univerzita Karlova)
Ver, tocar y sentir (Solange)
Architecture is to express my love for light (知乎专栏)
Nordic design keywords (Elle Decoration China)
Elemental (Mondo*Arc India)
The haven of memory (Abitare la Terra)
The scent library (The essence of Villa Arconati, Politecnico di Milano)
Apartment in Rome with a “dusty” look[↗] (Ville e Casali)
An impossible history (The Trail Blazers, Zak Radio)
Saturday selects: Week of April 17, 2017[↗] (Sight Unseen)
Antonino Cardillo bases textured all-green gallery interior on Wagner opera[↗] (Dezeen)
Architecture and truth (DEAR Magazin)
Dreamworld (AD Germany)
An architecture that looks to the future and has deep roots in the past (Strenna d’Agosto 2016, La Ragnatela)
Aspirations of grandeur (Spring/summer 2017 trends, Husk)
The magic of corals (Inside Quality Design)
Specus Corallii (The Coral Cave) In Trapani, Italy[↗] (Yellowtrace)
Ancient dust & fragrance[↗] (Neil Cownie Architect)
The Coral Cave in Trapani[↗] (Architetto, Wolters Kluwer)
House of Dust[↗] (Hic Arquitectura)

2016

Mondrian Suite gallery cafe (ViviRoma)
Specus Corallii[↗] (Hic Arquitectura)
The coral cave[↗] (Living, Corriere della Sera)
Grottoes[↗] (Architettura Italiana)
Architecture as ecstasy (designlines, BauNetz)
Architecture is a dream (Details d’Architecture)
Antonino Cardillo’s interiors[↗] (Divisare Journal)
Unobservable layers[↗] (XXI)
A soul for the Sala Laurentina (La Sicilia)
Plaster games[↗] (KBProject)
Coarse coral-pink plaster lends furry appearance to Antonino Cardillo’s Sicilian grotto[↗] (Dezeen)
10 of the most popular pink-hued interiors on Dezeen’s Pinterest boards[↗] (Dezeen)
Trapani, the Sala Laurentina reopens[↗] (Diocesi di Trapani)
Specus Corallii[↗] (Cattedrale di Trapani)
The sense of smell in architecture (Beyond the gaze. An architectural tool, Ecole d’Architecture de Casablanca)
Desires from an ancient past (ODDA)
Beautiful and rough: Irresistible interior[↗] (Living, Corriere della Sera)
Specus Corallii
Dominant colour (Bamboo)
New generation. Unusual Narratives (Bamboo)
Rooms (Stanze): Novel living concepts at the Triennale di Milano[↗] (Yellowtrace)
Hyper desire[↗] (Technische Hochschule Köln)
Eleven rooms between vertigo and perspective games[↗] (Pambianco News)
Stories of other rooms (Rooms. Novel Living Concepts, Triennale di Milano)
Color as a story (Asun)
Inside-out retail (How We Shop Now What’s Next?, Westfield)

2015

Specus Corallii: A work of architecture for the Sala Laurentina in Trapani (Lettera Aperta, Cattedrale di San Lorenzo)
Faked reality (Goethe-Universität / Deutsche Architekturmuseum)
Saturday… with scented reflections[↗] (5FTINF)
Luxury futures showcase 2015[↗] (The Future Laboratory, LS:N Global)
A shop with no products in sight (Eclectic)
Beguiling simplicity (handelsjournal)
Give us every day our daily enchantment (Design Exchange)
Media dissemination of architecture in the age of visualization[↗] (Photography, Reproduction, Manipulation. Architecture in the Image of Photography, Münster School of Architecture)
Theatre of suspended scents[↗] (Yellowtrace)
A touch of fragrance in the ashes (La Vie)
Illuminum London–Colour As Narrative[↗] (Elle Decoration)
Primordial perfume[↗] (LS:N Global)
Colour as a narrative: Perfume brand Illuminum explores realm of scent through architecture[↗] (Wallpaper*)
Illuminum teams up with architect Antonino Cardillo for their latest project[↗] (The Glass Magazine)
Antonino Cardillo’s ash[↗] (Apartments & Developments)
Antonino Cardillo combines scent and texture for Illuminum Fragrance shop interior[↗] (Dezeen)
Body building: Second skin (Being in shape / shaping environments, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten)
Colour as a Narrative
References (Baunetzwoche)
Architecture of dust (Abitare la Terra)
Twilight of the Gods in Rome (designlines, BauNetz)
Effect décor. From the peeling wall to the wallpaper. The trends of the moment according to 9 Italian protagonists of interior decoration (Living, Corriere della Sera)
In addition to reality: The schizophrenia of the industry (Baunetzwoche)

2014

Top 100 interiors[↗] (AD Spain)
12 years of art at the Mondrian Suite (ViviRoma)
Crepuscular Green[↗] (Frame)
14 of the world’s most inspiring new interior-design projects[↗] (Telegraph)
Postmodern room (Room: Inside Contemporary Interiors, Phaidon)
The House of Dust[↗] (La Repubblica)
Min at the Soane
Ephemeral spaces[↗] (Anti-Materials, LS:N Global)
Space and light (Sir John Soane’s Museum)
Best five italian architects[↗] (Secret Italy)
Mash up (Trend Spring Summer 2015, Texworld)
Crepuscular Green
Against the current (Trend)
Decorative ceilings (How to Spend It, Financial Times)
Advertising with the wow[↗] (Der Standard)
Apartment “House of Dust” in Rome (AIT Magazin)
Feeling through sight (The Journal of Architecture, RIBA)

2013

Earth tones never looked better than in the ‘House of Dust’[↗] (Curbed)
Antonino Cardillo constructs the House of Dust in Rome[↗] (Design Boom)
Lavish stores: Sergio Rossi[↗] (The Lavish World)
Shame on you, Designboom[↗] (Hochparterre)
Lavish living: The House of Dust[↗] (The Lavish World)
House of Dust (Intermediate Unit 2, AA School)
The alternative (Fulcrum, AA School)
Antonino Cardillo rewrites history with the Purple House[↗] (Design Boom)
Data divination (Homebuildlife Macro Trends: Autumn/Winter 2015/16, WGSN)
Domestic philosophy (Frame)
From boutique to gallery: Fashion, art and architecture (Art / Fashion in 21st Century, Thames & Hudson)
Another one likes the dust (AD Germany)
House of Dust[↗] (Abitant)
Abode of the ephemeral (Folio)
House of Dust, Rome (Architects’ Journal Specification)
House of Dust (Yellowtrace)
The Italian national team! (Grazia Russia)
Dust to dust…[↗] (World Architecture News)
Primordial caverns (Mr Oakley Smith)
House made of dust (designlines, BauNetz)
The House of Dust movie[↗] (Dezeen Architecture Movies, Dezeen)
House of Dust[↗] (Dezeen)
The memories within architecture (Ravenel)
In Rome the House of Dust[↗] (Ultrafragola)
A house, a vision (Casamica, Corriere della Sera)
You have lied (Radio 3 Suite, RAI)
Architecture is dust (House of Dust)
House of Dust
On the mediated representation of architecture (IACSA Newsletter, International Association for Cultural Studies in Architecture)
Music Holl (Dwell)
Light drama[↗] (Abitant)
Architecture designs that want to be real[↗] (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
Shopping in the ‘enchanted palace’[↗] (World Architecture News)
The most current Italy… moves (Condé Nast Traveler)
The primacy of the image?[↗] (Swiss Architects)

2012

Analog/digital (Building Images, Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum)
The Cardillo case and the Italian system (Il Giornale dell’Architettura)
We are mirrors of one another (Opere)
Bring life back to Birnbeck Island and Piers (The Masterplan, Sternberg)
Can we do without deception? (Bkult)
Grandiose castles in the air (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
All just rendered—and now?[↗] (German Architects)
Postcard from Italy #2[↗] (Frame)
Affaire A.C. (Itaca Associati)
Cardillo’s architecture, like Kubrick’s film, has something strongly attractive and repulsive at the same time (GranTouristas)
This Cardillo is an absolute champion (GranTouristas)
The man who loved renderings[↗] (Studio)
A Pinocchio of architecture[↗] (Hochparterre)
Fantasy and reality (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
The Cardillo case: One of the 30 most important architects in the world and the non-existent architecture (Amate l’Architettura)
I am calm[↗] (Spacelab)
The catalogue of the living (Il Foglio)
The “ghost” parmigiana house of the famous architect[↗] (Gazzetta di Parma)
The art of architecting “bufale”[↗] (Dagospia)
The architect of the non-existent houses[↗] (La Stampa)
Impostor: Roman ruins (Der Spiegel)
Arcade
Beautiful cloning[↗] (Falter)
Purple House (L4_House Design, A&C)
A matter of fusion[↗] (to BE, Libero)
Playing with the light (Laras)
Nomura 24 House (L’Arca)
Architecture: From narrative to interpretative act (Inside Quality Design)
Nomura 24 House (30 Sicilian Architects Under 40, Lettera 22)

2011

Impressionist architect (中国建筑装饰装修)
Taking a position (build Das Architekten-Magazin)
The Norman legacy (Inside Outside)
Postmodern Cafe at the Exhibition Road entrance (The London Design Festival 2011 guide, LDF)
Postmodern Cafe
Poppies for a fortress[↗] (The Architect’s Newspaper)
Oriental inspiration (Reforma Entremuros)
The colour purple[↗] (World Architecture News)
Romance with space (Surfaces Reporter)
Purple House
A yen for your thoughts? (Inside Outside)
Nomura 24 House Hyogo Prefecture (italiArchitettura, Utet)
Experiments (L’Architetto Italiano)
Angular residential property now complete[↗] (World Architecture News)
James Stirling: Contributions from eight leading international architects (Blueprint)
The consolidated promise (Ver, Sentir y Contar)
Tales of light (AND)

2010

Antonino Cardillo (MAN)
Game of references (L’Arca)
Light and rendering (BA Interior and Spatial Design, Chelsea College of Art and Design)
Sergio Rossi temporary store (L’Arreda Negozi)
Akin to a cinema set[↗] (World Architecture News)
Sameness and otherness (Projekt)
A heartfelt architecture (Slurp)
Is Massimiliano Fuksas a classicist? (Design Today)
Values trascending time (build Das Architekten-Magazin)
Not exactly a dime a dozen… (World Architecture News)
Reproduce an ancient classic (景观设计)
Lonely soul (Reforma Entremuros)
Wallpaper* and Sergio Rossi unveil an ephemeral boutique in Milan[↗] (Wallpaper*)
Fashion is piqued with design[↗] (Le Figaro)
Men’s footwear world tour (Sergio Rossi-Wallpaper*)
Akin to a Cinema Set
The Inexact Quality
House of Twelve (Schön!)
A house like a dance (H.O.M.E.)
Identity and difference (Inside Outside)
Minimalist mansion takes inspiration from the moon (ShortList)
Personality and difference (Nội Thất)
Strokes with originality (Reforma Entremuros)

2009

Physical poetry (DNA Magazine)
Living on the moon[↗] (World Architecture News)
Architecture and reverberation (Tasarim)
Mediterranean dreams[↗] (World Architecture News)
Tales of light (John Foxx DNA)
Architects directory (Wallpaper*)
Ellipse 1501 House (Collection: Houses, Braun)
Fixed in time (景观设计)
Rise of the new titans (Going Places, Malaysia Airlines)
House of Twelve
House for Wallpaper*
Rome and Hadrian’s Villa (Design Today)
Ellipse 1501 House (Concrete Design, Daab)
Flamenco-style Architecture (新初す)
Lake house (景观设计)
A tower (Demanio Re, Il Sole 24 Ore Casa)
Emotional space (B1 Magazine)
Plates (Almanac of Architecture & Design 2009, Greenway)

2008

A medieval soul in ancient Roman character (Tasarim)
Concrete Moon House
A world of wonder (Touch Decor)
The house that clutter forgot (ShortList)
Modern architecture: Visions of the future (South Italy, Marco Polo)
Flamenco y arquitectura (Inside Outside)
The flamenco dance of architecture (景观设计)
Considering coherency[↗] (World Architecture News)
More temple than dwelling (Home Review)
Studio Antonino Cardillo (Made)
Max’s House in a Small Lake
Vaulted House (L’Arca)
An ellipse shaped house (Tasarim)
Geometric houses: Oval and arch (景观设计)
Living in the zone…[↗] (World Architecture News)
Antonino Cardillo (Architectural Dialog 04, Артиндекс)
House of Convexities
Void to live (Vox Design)
Neoplastic dance of simple objects (Tasarim Annual 2008: The Best Project of 2007, Tasarim)

2007

Vaulted House
The feeling of movement (Мебелен Дизайн)
Egypt and lost immortality (Ulisse, Alitalia)
Birnbeck Island
Ellipse 1501 House (L’Arca)
Celestial vision (Home Review)
Dream aquarium and marine life laboratory (景观设计)
My concrete heart (Moli)
Ellipse 1501 House (The Cool Hunter)
A total eclipse[↗] (World Architecture News)
Villa-Atelier by Maurizio Betta (Il Giornale dell’Architettura)
Comment (Blueprint)
Casa in Manziana (L’Arca)
Ellipse 1501 House
House of year 2006 (World Architecture News)

2006–2003

Double take on space[↗] (World Architecture News)
House in Erice (Siciliarchitettura_06, EXPA)
Palermo—On display the spaceship city of the young Sicilian architects[↗] (La Repubblica)
Observatory on Italian construction (D’Architettura)
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