Degli Esposti Architetti is a leading partnership practicing architecture, masterplanning and infrastructure design, founded in 2006 by Lorenzo Degli Esposti and Paolo Lazza, based in Milan. Degli Esposti Architetti’s research is rooted in the canon of Milanese modern architecture, which is intended as a fundational source within the contemporary discourse. The project of Degli Esposti Architetti is on the urban palazzo (both public ones, such as institutional, school, and sport complexes; and private ones, as residential and commercial buildings and headquarters), thanks to both a broad practical experience (several built works and commissions) and fundamental studies on precedents throughout history. Degli Esposti Architetti’s project takes also the form of larger interventions (groups of buildings; urban design projects and masterplanning; town and regional planning; infrastructure design), able to transform and enhance the symbolic and material structure of the urban and landscape contexts of the project.
The principal projects in which the firm Degli Esposti Architetti is involved include the design of the new Liceo artistico Giovanni Gastel, part of the Istituto Frisi in Milan, commissioned by the Metropolitan City of Milan and funded by PNRR / EU NextGeneration; Cesena Sport City, a constellation of new sport facilities in the whole municipal area (swimming pool center, Triathlon national sport center, multi-purpose indoor centers, bowls hall, skating center, and related open spaces, outdoor sport fields, and bicycle routes), commissioned by the City of Cesena and funded by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Government; several real estate private developments in Milan, as the 200.000 sq ft urban development Zona B di recupero R7.5.
Among the built projects by Degli Esposti Architetti are a group of residential buildings in Milan, made of Casa Cloto (2025; 12 via Benigno Crespi), Casa Eurimone (2024; 29 via Piero della Francesca), Domus Thalia (2023; 46 via Tolstoi), Casa Calipso (2021; via Tagiura), Casa Selene (2021; 98 viale Umbria), Casa Tersicore (2018; 12 via Sala), Casa Anfiro (2014, 55 via Cassala), Residenze Teia (2010; 10 via Paisiello), and the 150.000 sq ft Residenze Carlo Erba (2019), a urban transformation of the block formerly occupied by the headquarter of Rizzoli Editore, then by Rinascente and the Zurich Insurance Group, project in conjunction with Peter Eisenman. Further realized projects are the following ones: the 200.000 sq ft PAS 2 / PAS 3 Masterplans (2010), transformation of two former industrial areas, Cormano (MI), and the requalification of the historic center public spaces of Colnago (2009) along the river Adda, between Milan and Bergamo.
Degli Esposti Architetti was a consultant for the architectural aspects for the winning consortium of the Autostrada Pedemontana Lombarda – second lot, from Dalmine (BG) to Lomazzo (CO), nowadays under construction.
Degli Esposti Architetti regularly takes part in international design tenders and competitions, having earned more than fifty invitations and awards, for projects of masterplans, waterfronts, public buildings, restoration and reuse of listed buildings, in Italy and abroad.
Projects by Degli Esposti Architetti and the cultural and civic activities of its directors (also within or in collaboration with institutions such as Regione Lombardia, Milan Triennale, Milan Politecnico, Brera Academy of Fine Arts, etc.) have been published in major periodicals (Corriere della Sera, laRepubblica, IlSole24Ore, Il Giornale, Il Giorno, Il Fatto Quotidiano, etc.), architecture magazines (Architectural Record, Log, Anfione e Zeto, Casabella, The Plan, C3, Arquine, Domus, Domus Korea, Abitare, Space Magazine, ArcDueCittà, Area, l’Arca International, Future Arquitecturas, AIÓN, IoArch, Modulo, Il Progetto, Mur+Betong, Albenaa, Arketipo, etc.), webzines (Divisare, Archdaily, Architectural Review Folio, Gooood, Gizmo, Architizer, Archello, Metalocus, Artribune, etc.) and have been presented in principal venues such us: Milan Triennale; Rome MAXXI; Venice Biennale; Vienna Secession; Reggia di Caserta; Soprintendenza Belle Arti Milano; Isola Art Center, Milan; Museo di Arte Moderna Palermo; SpazioFMG, Milan; Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia; MoCa – Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje; Hyundai Card Design Library, Seoul.
In 2007 and 2008, Degli Esposti Architetti was selected by the Triennale di Milano within the 30 firms of the city invited to the Open Studio event. In 2012, Degli Esposti Architetti was selected by the École Spéciale d’Architecture de Paris, in a batch of 50 leading international young firms invited to the Pavillon Spéciale initiative. Degli Esposti Architetti has been included several times in the top 100 Italian firms according to their annual income (source: national newspaper IlSole24Ore-prof. Norsa). During the Expo 2015, Lorenzo Degli Esposti was appointed curator of the Architecture Pavilion of Regione Lombardia, hosted in the Grattacielo Pirelli by Gio Ponti and Pier Luigi Nervi. The activities of the Architecture Pavilion has been published in the 600 pages book MCM – Milan, Capital of the Modern, English and Italian editions, Actar Publishers, New York, 2017, kept in more than 50 institutional libraries worldwide.
Degli Esposti Architetti got nominations in Premio Nazionale di Architettura, edition 2020 (for Residenze Carlo Erba) and edition 2025 (for Casa Eurinome), by MAXXI and Triennale Milano. Casa Tersicore was winner of 2021 BigSEE Architecture Award. For all the honors see here.
Lorenzo Degli Esposti was nominee in Premio Presidente della Repubblica, Accademia di San Luca, Roma, 2024.