Robin Monotti-Graziadei
| Robin Monotti Graziadei | |
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| Citizenship | Italian |
| Occupation | architect |
| Spouse(s) | Vera Filatova (m. 2008) |
| Relatives |
Antonio Graziadei (great grandfather) Ercole Graziadei (grandfather) |
| Website | robinmonotti |
Robin Monotti Graziadei is an Italian architect based in London. He is the managing partner of Robin Monotti Architects, a firm that he founded in 2007. In 2010, Monotti won the RIBA and Royal Parks Foundation's International Drinking Fountain Design Competition with his Watering Holes fountain design.
Monotti Graziadei was born and raised in Rome. He moved to England when he was 17 and studied BSc Architecture at the University of Bath in 1994. In 2000, he studied MA in Histories and Theories of Architecture at the Architectural Association of London.
From 2001 to 2007, he taught a Diploma Unit at the London Metropolitan University. He started Robin Monotti Architects in London in 2007 before which he worked in offices in architecture office in Rome and Milan. In 2007, Monotti translated Curzio Malaparte's Donna Come Me into English language titled Woman Like Me.
Foros Yacht house is a building, built by Monotti Graziadei and his firm, at the southernmost tip of the Crimean coastline. It houses four rental holiday apartments arranged around tall yacht storage at ground level, and connected by a staircase tower. He started working on the Yacht house in 2011 and completed it by 2012.
The Yacht house received a lot of media coverage. It was featured in AJ Buildings Library, Contemporist, and Architects' Journal. ArchDaily wrote that the, "Yacht House is a contemporary response to Russia’s dacha tradition. Robin Monotti’s design is uncompromisingly modern, but also open, playful and people focussed." Architecture Today wrote that "inside, the experience is very much like being in a luxurious yacht, with gleaming white furniture and a rows of porthole windows."
In 2010, Monotti Graziadei designed a sculptural stone fountain, called Watering Holes, in collaboration with Mark Titman. They designed the fountain to participate in an International Drinking Fountain competition held by RIBA and Royal Parks Foundation. The competition was intended to find suitable fountains for London's eight Royal Parks. Watering Holes was one of the two winners in the competition. The fountain has three watering holes at heights designed for adults, children & wheelchair users and dogs, cool, fresh drinking water is freely accessible to all park visitors. Watering Holes was listed as one of Time Out's top five drinking fountains in London.
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