AOUMM is a design firm operating nationally and internationally within the domains of architectural, landscape, urban, interior, and exhibition design, developing projects where different expertise triggers unexpected synergies. AOUMM is based in Milan and led by Luca Astorri, Riccardo Maria Balzarotti, Rossella Locatelli and Matteo Umberto Poli.
AOUMM is led by four partners with diverse and complementary expertise. Its work spans architecture, urbanism, interior, exhibition, and landscape design, developing projects in which interdisciplinary knowledge fosters unexpected synergies.
AOUMM’s architecture is never off-the-shelf. Each project emerges from an open and intensive dialogue with clients and from continuous, in-depth research into the cultural, historical, and environmental specificities of the context. This process leads to distinctive solutions that respond with sensitivity to spatial and architectural challenges, while actively promoting culture, identity, and participation.
The firm is grounded in solid expertise in budget, process, and program control, and in a dynamic conversation with the city, clients, consultants, contractors, and end-users. The post-occupancy experience plays a key role from the earliest design phases, ensuring that every project reflects the diversity, openness, and inventiveness that define AOUMM’s work.
PARTNERS
Architect trained in Milan and Lisbon, Luca has extensive hands-on experience in private and public projects, as ...well as participatory and cooperation projects. He worked at OMA – Office for Metropolitan Architecture and has collaborated with several NGOs in Africa and South America since 2010. He runs his practice AOUMM and co-directs the in-loco program for development projects in Africa with the non-profit social enterprise RISE International. He taught, lectured, and led design workshops at major institutions in Europe, Asia, South America.
Riccardo is an architect and partner at AOUMM, where he manages design and research projects at different ... scales for the private and public sectors, as well as complex strategic plans. He studied in Milan and Paris, and worked with CZA – Cino Zucchi Architetti and Studio Italo Rota. He is a research fellow at Politecnico di Milano, where he also works in education. He gave lectures and talks at several international institutions and events, and since 2018, he has been writing for the architectural magazine YouBuild.
Architect, Rossella conducts research on the border between architecture, exhibition design, and the history of ... applied arts, with a specific interest in fashion history. She runs her architectural practice, AOUMM, focusing on research and interior and exhibition design, and teaches and lectures in major European design schools. Her articles have been published in design culture magazines as Domus.
Matteo is an architect and strategic planner. Since 1997 he has gained international experience in ...architecture, urban design, and landscape projects. Trained in Milan, Barcelona, and Delft, he worked at West 8 and OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture. He currently acts as a scientific consultant for all AOUMM's design and research activities. Since 2005, he has been teaching Landscape Architecture at Politecnico di Milano. He has been an editor for Domus and special correspondent for Abitare, where he currently writes.