During the last years, he held visiting positions at the Politecnico di Milano (2022–23), the Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design/TU Delft (2018) and the Politecnico di Bari (2017), and was invited as guest design tutor at international design workshops such as Venice Studio (2023), at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica of Chile in Santiago (2018 and 2020) and Porto Academy (2016).

Over the last twenty years, together with Dogma, the architectural practice he has co-funded with Pier Vittorio Aureli, he has been working on a research by design trajectory that focuses on domestic space and its potential for transformation. This work, made of multiple studies and projects, has been exhibited at different venues including the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin 2015, the Biennale di Venezia in 2016 and 2021, the Chicago Architectural Biennial in 2017, the Flemish Architectural Institute in Antwerp, the Seoul Architecture Biennale and the Sharjah Architecture Triennale in 2019, the Toronto Metropolitan University and the Triennale di Milano in 2023. The office has published The room of one’s own (Black Square, 2017), Loveless (Black Square, 2019), Platforms (Black Square, 2020), and more recently Living and working (The MIT Press, winner of the DAM Architectural Book Award 2022) while the design work of the practice has been featured by El Croquis (issue 208/2021).

Martino Tattara has been teaching and mentoring students in academic contexts for more than fifteen years alongside professional practice. This parallel engagement ensures that his educational agenda is inspired by and feeds off his practice-based work.

All his teaching activities are based on real issues and emerging challenges. During the last years, he has extensively worked with his students around topical issues in relation to housing and domestic space, such as housing affordability, alternative forms of property, construction, management and maintenance, and the transformation of post-war social housing. To support real-time projects, he encourages students to go into the field and partner up with initiatives (such as housing associations, social housing agencies) that could help them in better framing their ideas and their design work. His approach to pedagogy is inspired by the importance of experiential knowledge and learning in real-life or staged real-life situations. He is also convinced that this should not come at the detriment of architectural literacy and disciplinary knowledge, which he fosters by exposing students to a wide set of references and analytical tools. He is convinced that this approach would make future students passionate about housing. He is certain that for future generations of students the social change and impact agenda will become increasingly relevant. Current young generations are increasingly more metropolitan, more diverse, and more socially engaged, so he believes that the exploration of topics such as new forms of welfare, the environmental crisis, and the rethinking of domestic space in relation to production and reproduction are all themes that could be of great interest to them.

• 2023 RIBA Charles Jencks Award
• 2022 DAM Architectural Book Award
• 2006 Iakov Chernikhov Prize

• 2023 Walhem. Project for a social housing block with 15 units for elderly people, Brussels
  In collaboration with IFAU and AGWA
• 2022 Spring Rain. Fence, portico, wall and staircase for the Qianhai Harbour School, Shenzen (China)
• 2021 The Opposite Shore. Study for urban transformation and new housing types in Flanders (Belgium)
• 2019 Do you see me when we pass? Housing Model for the Community Land Trust in Brussels
• 2019 Do you hear me when you sleep? Cooperative House in London
  In collaboration with Sun-Co-op, London
• 2019 Primary. The architecture of the platform. Study and prototype for a platform in the city of Sharjah to be built in the occasion of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2019, United Arabs Emirates
• 2019 Project for a new Cistercian monastery in Neuzelle, Germany
  With Tatiana Bilbao Estudio and MAIO
• 2018 Territorio de Gigantes. Project for four social housing blocks in Aguascalientes, Mexico
• 2017 Passages. Masterplan for the former Caserma Sani in Bologna
  With NOW for Architecture and Urbanism, Plant en Houtgoed, 2Pigreco
• 2017 Possibilities. Masterplan for the Linkeroever, Antwerp
• 2017 One Room House. Project for a house prototype in the Edersee (Germany)

• 2023 Home Sweet Home, Triennale di Milano
• 2023 Longhouses, Toronto Metropolitan University
• 2021 The opposite shore, 17th Biennale di Architettura di Venezia, Italy
• 2019 Primary. The architecture of the platform, Sharjah Architecture Triennial, Sharjah
• 2019 The promised land, Seoul Architectural Biennale, Seoul
• 2019 Rooms. Vlaams Architectuurinstituut VAi, Antwer
• 2017 A room of one’s own, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago
• 2015 Communal villa. Wohnungsfrage, Haus der Kulturen der Welt HKW, Berlin
• 2013 Recycling Socialism, Tallinn Architecture Biennale, Tallinn
• 2013 11 Projects, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London

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