Project Lebanon 2010 | TURI ANGILELLA

La Consulta Regionale degli Ordini degli Architetti della Sicilia partecipa, con uno stand alla fiera ”Project Lebanon 2010” che si terrà a Beirut, in Libano, dall’1 al 4 Giugno 2010. L’obiettivo è quello di offrire ai professionisti siciliani nuove vetrine internazionali e, dunque, nuove opportunità di inserimento nei mercati esteri in crescita, come quello libanese.
In particolare, in Libano, negli ultimi anni il settore delle costruzioni ha registrato un vero e proprio “boom”, per l’aumento della liquidità nella Regione Araba, per le riforme implementate dal Governo Libanese, per le misure fiscali e per le rimesse della diaspora libanese, che nel solo 2009, anno della crisi internazionale, hanno superato 7 miliardi di dollari.


Angilella Prestileo Partners Architect, APPA, was created by architects Turi Angilella and Giovanni Prestileo, who, having developed a curriculum of work for both public and private sector clients, decided to put their almost twenty years of experience and expertise to work in the field of cultural inheritance and of Architecture.
The company is based in Palermo, with the office for planning and exhibition located in a nineteenth century building in Palermo’s historical centre.

APPA Studio is full service architectural firm that specializes Design, construction supervision and testing of public and private works in architecture, carefully bio architecture and building restoration. Interior design, research and development of innovative materials.
We also provide professional comprensive as-built surveys with data, drawing and CAD disks on all architectural, mechanical, electrical and plumbing aspects of the client’s facilities.

Sicily has always been a place of meetings, of people, of experiments and of languages, and this peculiarity has always marked its economic and artistic history.
The work of APPA is inspired by these beginnings: meeting and exchange between cultures. Amongst the periods of greatest cultural richness and dynamism in Sicily was what we refer to as the trilingual period, under Ruggero II, in the twelfth century. At that time Greeks, Arabs and Romans worked in royal workshops, producing some of the greatest masterpieces of Architecture. Today, the current climate, characterised by profound migration, presents similar characteristics that could allow Sicily to become again a place of meeting, of the passing of people, of the sedimentation of elements of different cultures. APPA, acknowledging the extent to which the Arab influence on Sicilian culture is still present and the debt Italian culture as a whole owes this matrix, puts itself forward as a place of exchange and meeting between different cultures, as a place of experimentation and of the application of history as an inspiration for contemporary Architecture project in the Mediterranean and in Sicily in particular.

Biographical notes
Turi Angilella was born in 1963 in Palermo where he lives and works today. In 1989 he founded the Metastudio Associati. In 1990 he opened his own studio. In 1996 he became president of Palermo’s branch of the Istituto Nazionale di Bioarchitettura. In 1997 he specialised in the conservation of historical architecture at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche.
He has exhibited his work extensively, including shows at London, in Harrods Department Store and in ICA (Institute of Contemponary Arts), at Palermo’s City Council and Trevi Flash Art Museum (Perugia and Bari) in Italy. He has written numerous articles in scientific journals and edited collections.

Giovanni Battista Prestileo was born in 1962 in Palermo where he lives and works today. In 1998 he founded the Prestileo and Bianco Architetti Associati. In 2004 he completed the PhD doctoral studies in “Recovery and use of ancient contexts”. Professor at the “Free University Kore in Enna” and Faculty of Architecture in Siracusa. He has written numerous articles in scientific journals and edited collections.

The studio has designed and realized many residential and public buildings, public spaces, renewal plans and master plans for industrial and historical areas, hospital buildings, hotel architectures. Amongst their clients private and public holdings.