Orizzontale is a collective of architects based in Rome, whose work spans architecture, landscape, public art and self-construction. orizzontale has been promoting relational public space projects since 2010, shaping images of disused or unpublished cities. These projects have been a testing ground for new forms of interaction between inhabitants and the urban commons and at the same time an opportunity to test the limits of the architectural creation process. Orizzontale has built and developed projects in Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Greece, Ukraine, Portugal and the Netherlands. "8 ½", the mobile theatre built by orizzontale in 2014, was the winner of the international Young Architects Program award ("YAP MAXXI 2014") called by the MAXXI Museum and MoMA PS1. In 2016, orizzontale won the competition for the regeneration of Piazza della Comunità Europea in Aprilia, called by MiBACT and CNAPPC. The project is realised and was awarded the Premio Urbanistica by INU in 2020. In 2018 at the Venice Biennale, Horizontal receives the "Young Talent of Italian Architecture 2018" award from CNAPPC, which rewards the best Italian studio under 35. Since 2020, orizzontale has founded and curated VUOTO, a transmedia space for reflection and debate on the city and public space. Horizontal's work has been shown in international exhibitions, including the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Vienna Biennale and the Oslo Architecture Triennale. In 2023, it is featured at the 18th. International Architecture Exhibition as part of the exhibition The Laboratory of the Future, curated by Lesley Lokko at the Corderie dell'Arsenale, and in the Italian Pavilion, in the exhibition Spatial. Each One Belongs to All Others curated by Fosbury Architecture. Horizontal consists of: Jacopo Ammendola, Juan López Cano, Giuseppe Grant, Margherita Manfra, Nasrin Mohiti Asli, Roberto Pantaleoni, Stefano Ragazzo.
