giacomo albo info@finearc.it
Born in Lecco in 1975, graduated in architecture at the milan polytechnic in 2002. He began his photographic journey during the university years. Attracted by the works on the architecture and urban landscape he dedicated himself to the portrait of public and private space for various clients. Since 2007 there have been several collaborations with sector magazines through articles and photographs (talea, the plan, archetipo il sole24ore, interni magazine, casabella, theplan, platform, ioarch, hauser…). Since 2014 he collaborates in teaching in architectural design laboratories of the milan polytechnic with in-depth analysis on the theme of communication in architecture. Here he is responsible for the photographic documentation accompanying the publications concerning the didactic paths covered.
Author and curator, in 2015, of the exhibition "Expo Landscapes: architecture, testimonies and traces of a universal exposition". In 2019 he was co-author of the photographic project "Fragile Landscapes" as part of the "International Summer School 2019", Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic of Milan. In 2020 he directed and photographed the short film "Spazi Illuminati", presented at the MDDF, telling the story of the restoration of the Vanoni Library, the work of Luigi Caccia Dominioni. In 2021, with Marco Introini, he presents the path "Di roccia e d’acciaio, tra natura e artificio", a photographic investigation into the transformations of the industrial archaeological heritage in the city of Lecco. In Bergamo, the exhibition inaugurates in 2022: "Bergamo latent landscape" proposing an interpretation of the city during the total lockdown of 2020. In February 2023, he proposes "Aedificante: cantiere, cultura, persone, futuro" a photographic testimony on the construction site at the Stelline Foundation in Milan and later at the European Culture Center in Venice in Palazzo Mora during the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale.
