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Jean Marc Schivo

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Architect Giovanni Marco Schivo was born in Toulon, France, where he spent his childhood.
In his youth he practiced athletics with important results in the specialty of high jump winning the gold medal at the 1971 Mediterranean Games and playing in the final of the 1972 Olympic Games in Monaco.
He studied at the Faculty of Architecture “Valle Giulia” of the Sapienza University of Rome where he graduated with Prof. Bruno Zevi with whom he subsequently collaborated until 1983 carrying out research activities in the field of Communication of Architecture.
Collaboration and meetings with important personalities such as Corrado Cagli, Sergio Musmeci, Luigi Pellegrin, Jean Prouvé, Claude Parent, André Woghenskj, Ionel Schein has marked, in different ways, his idea of architecture and design communication.
Between 1987 and 1988, he was a lecturer in the educational courses in the field of sport facilities at the CONI School of Sport in Rome.
In addition to the freelance profession that works alternately between Rome and Paris, from 2001 to 2013 he was a professor in the degree program of Interior Architecture and City Sciences at the faculty of architecture “Valle Giulia” Sapienza University in Rome.
In recent years it has intensified urban and environmental projects and research.
His collaboration with Artelia Group France’s research and innovation department has involved studying and prototyping technologies that aim to solve climate change problems and their impact on the built environment in urban development projects.
In 2025, he was commissioned to design the city of tomorrow as part of the “Living Avenues” research by the Bouygues Innovation group.

Passion and Rigour

Jean Marc Schivo, who now teaches in the Valle Giulia Faculty of Architecture, only de-cided to enroll at university when he was twenty-three years old; until then, as his bi-ography states, he had been a devoted sportsman, actually achieving excellent results even at international standard.
He has always shown the same passion and precision when first studying architecture, then working professionally, and now teaching the Faculty.
Having learnt his trade on our campus, he is a very original example of the creative artistry and pragmatism that can only be achieved after truly taking on the cultural leg-acy of masters such as those who have taught at the Faculty.
Prominent amongst these great teachers is unquestionably Bruno Zevi, who he worked with until 1983, developing an interesting line of experimentation in the field of archi-tectural communication.
Zevi himself acknowledge Schivo’s distinctly cosmopolitan cultural background result-ing from all his frequent trips abroad; such wide cultural horizons brought him into contact with the most prestigious architecture firms, where he worked with such out-standing professionals as Sergio Musmeci, Luigi Pellegrin and Andrè Woghenskj, one of Le Corbusier’s assistants.
Thanks to the way he has successfully combined professional training in architecture and scientific studies, Schivo has shown a real flair for analyzing problems on both a theoretical and practical level. This is why he has managed to provide a notable con-tribute to solving typical problems associated with architectural design, such as the re-lations of human artifice to the natural environment in which they are set, always work-ing along totally innovative lines.
He has not adopted the approach of blending architecture into the landscape trought contextual camouflaging, preferring instead to search for a deeper sense of harmony between people and the environment, without making them overlap. He is always look-ing for a careful balance that respect their relative identities and distinctive traits.
In this respect, his project for the International Observatory for a protecting cetaceans to be built in Imperia is particularly emblematic. Its zoomorphological form provides the means to actively empathise with the design.
Finally, it shows the ability to find a new synthesis, in some senses quite unorthodox and being the result of thousands of years of research: human experimentation into a type of space that is different from the natural world, but at the same time incorpo-rated in it and in harmony with it: an authentic interpenetration of both natural and ar-tificial elements lightened up thanks to progress in new building technology.

Roberto Palumbo
Dean of the Faculty of Architecture “Valle Giulia” in Rome

2026 Milan – Myplant&garden – “Il paesaggio come infrastruttura. Da Milano Cortina 2026 al paesaggio storico, dalle aree ex industriali ai paesaggi della cura” – Project “Paesaggi portatili: il giardino come oggetto mobile e adattivo”.

2025 Paris – Novatech – International Conference, abstract presentation Living Avenues Bouygues.

2023 Milan – CITY’SCAPE Triennale Milano, abstract presentation Urban park Imperia.

2022 Milano – CITY’SCAPE Triennale Milano, abstract presentation Contact Green.

2021 Paris – Abstract presentation Hauteur des villes, Artelia Group.

2018 Sofia – Exhibition at INTERARCH – World Triennial XV of Architecture of Sofia.

2017 Dunkerque – Conference Découvrez le monde de demain.

2017 Melbourne, Australia – Ecocity World Summit.

2015 Paris Le Bourget, Musée de l’Art et de l’Espace – Cop21 – La Galerie by World Efficiency.

2015 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – Ecocity World Summit.

2014 Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain – Bahrain International Garden Show.

2013 Nantes – Lecturer at the X° Congress Ecocity World Summit 2013.

2012 Shanghai – Lecturer at the CTBUH 2012 Shanghai congress.

2012 Rome – Conference “Source”: International bilateral project between Italy and Sweden on the theme of eco-sustainable cities, C.I.T.E.R.A. – University of Rome “Sapienza”.

2012 Sofia – Exhibition at INTERARCH – World Triennial XIII of Architecture of Sofia.

2012 Cannes – Exhibition at “MIPIM 2012”.

2011 Hong Kong – Exhibition at “MIPIM Asia 2011”.

2010 Cannes – Exhibition at “MIPIM 2010”.

2009 Cannes – Exhibition at “MIPIM 2009”..

2008 Milan – Exhibition at “EIRE Expo Italia Real Estate”.

2008 Rome – Exhibition at the international conference “Le città del futuro”..

2008 Rome – Exhibition at inauguration gallery “Come se” 15 Roman Architects..

2008 Milan – Exhibition at “EIRE Expo Italia Real Estate”.

2007 Hong Kong – Exhibition at “MIPIM Asia 2007”.

2007 Cannes – Exhibition at “MIPIM 2007”.

2007 Frascati (Rome) – Lecturer at the conference “The history (in)contemporary” International Festival IV edition.

2004 Rome – “Signs of Dream”: personal exhibition at the head office of the Professional Association of Architects.

2004 Rome – Lecturer at the conference “To project with light: the man, the spaces, perception of dimension”. Presentation of the book: “The Lightmakers” by iGuzzini Italy.

2004 Venice – “Pavilion of Water” at the Venice Biennale.

2003 Rome – Lecturer at “Conversazioni a Valle Giulia: Mutazioni Ibridazioni” – University of Rome “Sapienza”, Valle Giulia Faculty of Architecture

2002 Tenerife – Lecturer at “V° foro hemisférico de ciudades hermanas”.

2002 Rome – Lecturer at conference “Il fotovoltaico in Italia: la tecnologia solare come fonte di energia” – Rome, Congress Palace.

2001 Naples – Lecturer at the PhD course of the professor Claudio Claudi de St. Mihiel – University of Naples “Federico II°” – Department of Urban Design – Technology and Environment Section.

1999 Principality of Monaco – Exhibition and conference for the centenary of the founding of the Oceanographic Museum Albert Ier.

1992 Paris – Exhibition “Salon International de l’Architecture”.

1985 Rome – Exhibition “Trenta giovani architetti”, Taverna Palace. INARCH (National Institute of Architecture).

2025 Paris – «Innovation Team Best Practices», award for the research “Living Avenues” Bouygues.

2023 Milan – CITY’SCAPE Triennale Milano Prize for the Urban Park Imperia.

2019 Paris – Jacques Rougerie Foundation international architecture competition. “innovation and architecture for oceans”, les Arches de la solidarité.

2018 Sofia – Exhibition at INTERARCH – World Triennial XV of Architecture of Sofia Prize of the Mayor of Sofia.

2016 Paris – Jacques Rougerie Foundation, international architecture competition, “innovation and architecture for space”, mention of the Jury.

2012 Sofia – Exhibition at INTERARCH – World Triennial XIII of Architecture of Sofia, Award of the Chamber of Architects of Bulgaria.

2003 Saudi Arabia – Invitation-based international architecture competition – Nuove sedi dell’Arab National Bank.

2003 Frankfurt – Invitation-based international architecture competition – Nuove sedi dell’Arab National Bank.

2003 Saudi Arabia – Invitation-based international architecture competition –ECB – European Central Bank, new headquarters.

2002 Imperia – Architecture competition “Programma interventi fotovoltaici ad alta valenza architettonica” – integrated photovoltaic system of the new sports hall in Imperia. Winner project.

2002 Geneva – International architecture competition of ideas: La maison de la paix.

2001 Hong Kong – Architecture competition of ideas: Kowloon Bay.

2001 Milan – International architecture competition, new Auchan-Rinascente centers: “Architettura, Immagine ed Emozione”. Winner project.

1989 Rome – European Glulam Award for laminated wood structures: Olympic swimming pool project at the “Giulio Onesti” Olympic Complex, Rome