biography

Ermanno Casasco

Bordighera

Italy, 1979
Ermanno Casasco, born in Fornovo di Taro (PR) , Italy, has a high school diploma in Industrial Chemistry.

Beaulieu

France, 1982
In 1977 he began his activity as a landscape designer for the creation of terraces and gardens.

Novara

Italy, 1983
From 1979 to 1982 he attended the four-year course of Landscape Design in San Francisco, California.

Pavia

Italy, 1984
Member of the Italian Association of Landscape Architects (A.I.A.P.P.) since 1988.

Milan

Italy, 1985
He has taught garden design at the Scuola Agraria del Parco di Monza (literally "Monza Park Agricultural School") since 1994.

Milan

Italy, 1986
Garden design teacher at the I.S.A.D. of Milan from 1988 to 1996.

Marsala

Italy, 1987
He taught garden design at the Arte e Messaggio (literally "Art and Message") school of the Castello Sforzesco in Milan.

Brisbane

Australia, 1988
Professor of garden design seminars at the Brera Academy in Milan.

Negombo Park

Ischia, Italy, 1988
Publication

Ermanno Casasco, “Il fiume come piazza” (literally "The river as a plaza"), Floricoltura Pesciantina, Ed. Comitato Biennale del Fiore, Pescia (PT) 1996.

Milan

Italy, 1989
Publication

Ermanno Casasco, “La costruzione del giardino mediterraneo, oggi” (literally "The construction of the Mediterranean garden, today") in “Il giardino come cura dell’oggi” (literally "The garden as a cure for today"), by Giulia Barbieri and Eleonora Fiorani, Ed S.G.E., Bologna 1998.

Catania

Italy, 1990
Publication

Ermanno Casasco, “La difficile gestazione del giardino” (literally "The difficult gestation of the garden"), Ed. Elemond, Milan 1996.

Trapani

Italy, 1991
TV Shows

From 1983 to 1984 he participated in the weekly television program on the garden "IL SABATO" - RAI 2.

From 1984 to 1985 he held a format of 104 episodes on the garden, broadcast by the private television INTER TV.

Milan

Italy, 1992

Articles and collaborations with magazines

Casa e Giardino, Ed. Casa e Giardino S.r.l., Milan 1982/’89 Gardenia, Ed. Giorgio Mondadori, Milan 1984 Ville Giardini, Ed. Elemond S.p.A., Milan 1987/’02 La mia casa, Ed. Alberto Peruzzo, Milan 1988/’90 Elle Decor, Ed. Elle Decoration International, France 1988 La Gola, Ed. Nibbio Italia, Milan 1993

Buyukada

Istanbul, Turkey, 1993
Conferences

Speaker at "The design of public green areas" Agricultural School of the Park of Monza (MI), Italy, 1994.

Como

Italy, 1994
Conferences

Speaker at the Ville Giardini conference "Casa nel verde", Milan, Italy, 1996.

Trapani

Italy, 1995
Conferences

Speaker at the Conference "The arrangement of the river banks", Pescia (PT), Italy, 1996.

Crans Montana

Switzerland, 1996
Conferences

Speaker at the Conference "The landscape designer, an emerging profession", Ischia (NA), Italy, 1997.

St. Tropez

France, 1997
Conferences

Speaker at the Environmental Education Conference "Vegetable and botanical gardens", Civic Museum of Natural History (MI), Italy, 1997.

Istanbul

Turkey, 1998
Conferences

Speaker in meetings and debates at I.R.R.S.A.E. Lombardia, Italy, 1998.

Paris

France, 1999
Conferences

Speaker at the Conference "Water in the built landscape" - Terme di Comano (TN), Italy, 2000.

Long Island

New York, USA, 2000
Conferences

Three teaching sessions at the Italian Cultural Institute in Istanbul "Construction of Mediterranean gardens", Turkey, 2004.

Cook Islands

Polynesia, 2001
Architecture competitions

International Competition for the design of the Management - Financial Pole of the Garibaldi-Repubblica area in Milan with Arch. Raffaele Cecchi, Arch. Paola Iacucci. Project reported, Italy, 1988

Portofino

Genoa, Italy, 2002
Architecture competitions

Competition of ideas for the preliminary design of the new high school center in Piedicastello di Trento, with Arch. Corrado Annoni, Arch. Stefano Parodi, Arch. Michele Reginaldi, Arch. Daniela Saviola. Autonomous Province of Trento. First prize, Italy, 1993

Milan

Italy, 2003
Architecture competitions

International design competition "Parco Forlanini" with the architects Angelo Bugatti, Paola Coppi, Silvano Molinari - Italy, 2002

New York

USA, 2004
Architecture competitions

International design competition "Piazze 2001" - Piazzale Gambara - Milan, with the architects Vincenza Lima, Raffaello Cecchi, Andrea De Matteis - First prize, Italy, 2002

Acqui Terme

Italy, 2005
Architecture competitions

Competition for ideas "Piazza Pier Saccone Tarlati", Bibbiena (AR), with the architects Enrico Bertelli and Roberto Ricci and the sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro - First prize, Italy, 2002/2003

Golturkbuku

Turkey, 2006
Architecture competitions

International design competition "Redevelopment of the Milano Fiera urban center" with the architects Norman Foster, Frank O.Ghery, Rafael Moneo, Cino Zucchi - Italy, 2003

Bodrum

Turkey, 2007
Gardens published

Giardini di Milano” (literally "Gardens of Milan") by M. Di Biasi, Edizioni CELIP, Milan, Italy, 1992.

Moscow

Russia, 2008
Gardens published

Squares in Contemporary Architecture” by P. Favole, English Ed. - Architecture and Nature Press, Amsterdam 1995.

Ayvalık

Turkey, 2009
Gardens published

Il Negombo” by E. Fiorani, Electa, Naples, Italy, 1999.

Antalya

Turkey, 2010
Gardens published

Jardins d’aujourd’hui en Europe” Entre art et architecture di Penelope Hill, Fonds Mercator 2002.

Ischia

Italy, 2011

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