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The architectural practice Veniceteam was established by Leo Schubert and Verdiana Durand de la Penne in 2012. Together with a team of external collaborators, they work on a specialized range of projects for the renovation and transformation of historic constructions including private assignments and consultancies for cultural institutions such as the Aga Khan Trust for Culture Geneva, the Fondazione Giorgio Cini Venice, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation New York, the Apollo Foundation London and The Venice in Peril Fund in the framework of the UNESCO-International Private Committees Programme for the Safeguarding of Venice.
Projects and consultancies in Italy, Switzerland, USA, Syria, Tanzania, Ireland and Japan.
After a Doctorate in History of Architecture and a Research Scholarship at the IUAV University Venice, Leo Schubert was guest lecturer at the Venice International University and gave lectures at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Columbia University New York, Chandigarh (for UNESCO), Technische Universität Aachen, General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums Aleppo, Fondation Le Corbusier Paris, Udine University and the IUAV University Venice. He has published studies on Le Corbusier and Otto Wagner and has written on the documentation of historic sites and on conservation practice in Venice. In 2005 he was awarded the Ackerman-Balzan Prize in the History of Architecture.
Verdiana Durand de la Penne worked for Equilibri srl on projects byTadao Ando Architect and Associates in Italy, France and Tokyo before co-founding Veniceteam.
Biographies
Leo Schubert
| Architect, PhD in History of Architecture, member of the Ordine degli Architetti della Provincia di Venezia, Honrary Consul of Switzerland in Venice (since 2017) | ||
| 2012-present | Veniceteam, Partner | |
| 2008-2012 | Consultant in Damascus for the Aga Khan Trust, Historic Cities Support Program, Geneva | |
| 2011 | Guest Lecturer at the Venice International University, Venice | |
| 2009-2012 | Post PhD Research Scholarship and teaching assistant at the IUAV University, Venice | |
| 2006 | Project Manager for Paratus Group, New York | |
| 2004 | Scholarship from the Venice in Peril Fund in the framework of the UNESCO-International Private Committees Programme for the Safeguarding of Venice | |
| 2002-2003 | Conservation Architect in Aleppo and Zanzibar for the Aga Khan Trust, Historic Cities Support Program, Geneva | |
| 1999-2001 | PhD in History of Architecture and Urbanism, IUAV University, Venice | |
| 1991-1998 | Student at the EPFL Lausanne and the IUAV University Venice | |
| 1972 | Born in Bern, Switzerland |
Verdiana Durand de la Penne
| Architect, member of the Ordine degli Architetti della Provincia di Venezia | ||
| 2012-present | veniceteam, Partner | |
| 2009-2012 | Architect for Equilibri srl, Mestre, construction management for Tadao Ando Architect and Associates | |
| 2006-2007 | Architect for Alberico Belgiojoso Architect, Milan | |
| 2001 | Internship Agence Jean Nouvel, Paris | |
| 1996-2005 | Student at the IUAV University, Venice | |
| 1977 | Born in Venice, Italy |
Publications
- L. Schubert, “Les immeubles de rapport d’Otto Wagner”, in Otto Wagner, Maître de l’art nouveau viennois (ed. H. Doucet), Paris 2019
- L. Schubert, “In ricordo di James Ackerman: le ville di Le Corbusier e la villa antica”, in Balzan Papers no. 2, Florence 2019
- L. Schubert, “Otto Wagners Entwurfs- und Baupraxis – Seine Zinshäuser”, in Otto Wagner (eds. A. Nierhaus, E.-M. Oroz), Vienna 2018
- L. Schubert, “Otto Wagner e Gottfried Semper: l’ornamento necessario all’arte del costruire”, in Architettura dell’Eclettismo (eds. L. Mozzoni, S. Santini), Naples 2014
- L. Schubert, “Ricerca Artistica e prassi costruttiva nell’opera matura di Le Corbusier”, in Casabella no. 817, Milan 2012
- L. Schubert, “Horizontal Structures in Wagner’s oeuvre”, in L’architrave, le plancher, la plate-forme (ed. R. Gargiani), Lausanne 2012
- L. Schubert, C.Bouleau, “Recording a Unique Built Heritage, in Syria, Medieval Citadels Between East and West (ed. S. Bianca), Geneva 2007.
- L. Schubert, “Colonne et poteau dans les premières oeuvres de Le Corbusier (1906-1916)”, in La Construction de la Colonne (ed. R. Gargiani), Lausanne 2007.
- L. Schubert, “La maison suisse” in Le Corbusier. La Suisse, les Suisses, (eds. A. Rüegg, S. v. Moos) Paris 2006
- L. Schubert, La villa Jeanneret-Perret di Le Corbusier. 1912: La prima opera autonoma, Venice 2006
- L. Schubert, “La realizzazione del progetto”in Un restauro per Venezia. Il recupero della casa in calle delle Beccarie 792 (eds. J.Millerchip, L. Schubert), Milan 2006
- L. Schubert, “The Design of the 1912 Villa Jeanneret-Perret: Le Corbusier between Past and Present” in Massilia, 2003, Anuario de estudios Lecorbusierianos, Barcelona 2003
- L. Schubert, M. Piana, F. Becker, “Un progetto finanziato dal Venice in Peril Fund: la casa in Calle delle Beccarie” in ‘ANAΓKH, no. 37, Florence 2003
- L. Schubert, “Town and Architecture in the Photography of Le Corbusier“ in Le Corbusier before Le Corbusier 1906-1922 (eds. A. Rüegg, S. v. Moos), New Haven and London, 2002
- L. Schubert, “Il restauro degli edifici non vincolati a Venezia” in Ateneo Veneto, Rivista di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, CLXXXIX, Venice 2002