INFO

Graduated in Architecture (Università di Firenze), Post graduated masters in "Theory of Contemporary Architecture" (Architectural Association – London), PhD in architecture (Université Paris 8 / Università di Firenze). His work takes shape across three parallel fields:

STANDARD WELL DONE ARCHITECTURE: 

In 2004, in Paris, he founded "Atelier On-Air", skilled on several Architectural practices  as residential and public projects. 

ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN: 

In 1996, Michele Boni started to expound the protected areas, an environmental invisible architecture, consisting of a series of air curtains. In 1998, the Swiss National Exposition Society for the Expo.02 get through to him for doing a research about “the air as architectural matter”, in collaboration with Ove Arup Engineering-London. Later, in 1999, he developed the Air Boundaries system with the Department of Mechanics of Fluids of EPFL (Funded by the KTI-CTI-Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation). 

In 2008, he presented the Frontières d'air system obtaining an Air Bubble Architecture. In meatime he published the Air Architecture Manifesto. In 2011 he founded a startup, A.R.I.A. Engineering Srl. In 2014 he presented the “Wind Hunter system” obtaining an Air drop Architecture. 

TEACHING:

Since 2001 he teached Architectural Design in several European schools of Architecture as Facoltà di Architettura di Firenze, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, ENSA-Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture de Rouen,  ENSA Nantes, ENSA Paris-Malaquais, ESA-Special School of Architecture in Paris, ENSA Dijon.

PUBBLICATIONS:

2019

«L'architecture de la bulle d'air», Ed. Les Presses du Réel, Dijon (october 2019)

«Habiter l'air»,  Editions Alternatives, Paris (november 2019)
2010

ComfortBUBBLE, in «Air», MIT Press (USA).

2009              

«Antologia di materiali », Finestra (I).

2008              

 - «Nuova cittadella per lo sport massese», Il Tirreno, magazine (I).

 - « Snobbato un progetto per lo sport », La Nazione magazine (I).

2007               

- «Niente rotatoria alla Misericordia », Il Tirreno, magazine (I).

- « Parte la demolizione dell’ex distributore Agip », La Nazione, (I).

- « Salviamo l’Ex-Agip con l’elettricità », La Nazione’ magazine (I).

- “Ex-Agip, progetto per rivivere », Il Tirreno magazine (I).

2004               

- « SOS per l’ex-distributore », La Nazione’ magazine (I).

- « Quel Distributore é opera di valore », La Nazione’ magazine (I).

2003               

- «Des espaces de liberté pour devenir autre», Maison Français.

- « Sgorbio », inflatable lampe, Maison Français.

2001              

- « Douze écoles d'architecture en Europe, Ed. Frac Orléans.

1999             

- « Un OVNI pour le vélo », 24 heures, magazine (CH).

- « L’espace n’est pas si vide que ça”, Le Temps magazine (CH).

- « Expò apuana in Svizzera”, La Nazione magazine (I).

1998                         

- « Construire avec l’air, le retour”, Expli.cite magazine de l’Expo.01 (CH).

- “A perverse space: the experience of touching and looking in Philippe Starck’s work", 

Architectural Association project review (UK).

1997               

- “Pucciniano, foresta magica per far vivere un teatro”, La Nazione (I).

- “Per la lirica: un teatro con le pareti a getto d’aria”, La Nazione (I).

- “Teatro di Puccini ristrutturato da un apuano”, La Nazione (I).

1996         

-  "Kona",Casaviva magazine (I) (Year XXV).

- "Dall’acciaio nasce un fiore", Casaviva magazine (I) (Year XXV).

1994              

- “Les gourmets”, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (E).