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Freddy Curiél is an Italian Landscape Architect from Trieste (Italy), with an expertise in different fields of design at different scales. He started his bachelor architecture studies at IUAV (Venice, Italy) and KArch Royal Academy (Copenhagen, Denmark). Later on he gained his master degree in Architecture and Landscape Planning at Politecnico di Milano where he graduates with Honours, developing his thesis at TU Delft, Chair of Urbanism and Landscape, awarded by Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands. ?Since 2006 he collaborated in several architecture studios in Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and Hong Kong. Based in Shenzhen since 2011, he carries out research and academic activities parallel to his design practice.

In 2012 he won the Young Professional Award for Sustainable Ideas, thanks to his visionary proposal for a sustainable management of the entire Pearl River Delta, and invited to presented it during the Rio+20 UN Conference in Rio de Janeiro.
In 2013 he has been appointed as the Co-Curator of the Italian Pavilion during the UABB 2013 in Shenzhen, and ever since he has been involved in several cultural activities and exhibitions dedicated to design within the Creative Community in South China.

Freddy Curiél is an active member of IDA (Italian Designers Association) and until today the Asia Representative of DGJ Architects & Landscapes, with offices in Frankfurt, Zürich, The Hague and Paris.

Freddy Curiél is the founder and creative director of Lapis Bureau, a creative design agency based in Shenzhen that provides Landscape, Architecture, Products and Interiors Solutions through a wide range of design proposals, with a wide range of international clients in their portfolio such as Luxottica, Cassina, Giorgetti, Tencent, MoMA Design Store and many others.