Biography

Bernardo D’Ippolito was born in Taranto on 21 October 1965. He attends the faculty of Architecture at "La Sapienza" University in Rome, graduating in 1990, with a dissertation on the "Developing of the Pontifical armory of Trastevere", which will be published afterwards.

He qualifies as Architect during the 1990's second session and he enrolls in the Architects’ register of the Taranto province on 6 September 1991.

He then decides to come back to its hometown to dedicate himself to self-employment and lay the basis for what will take shape in a few years' time: Kino Workshop, a services and engineering firm.

In 2001 he establishes Kino Workshop srl, of which he becomes CEO.

With Kino Workshop, architecture Lab, he realizes various projects for public and private clients; nonetheless, pushed by the urge of widening both his commercial and designing horizons, he stars up a dedicated study on "LIGHT", as the fourth architectonic dimension and on its sensorial perceptions.

In 2008 he enrolls in the Journalists' special register, to run a magazine given up to architecture made in Kino Workshop.

He receives prestigious assignments as lighting engineering teacher for a post-graduated master degree from Bari's School of Arts. While enrolling to the Italian Association of light engineers (APIL),in 2009 he is given the assignment by Milan's Cosmit as teacher of a Workshop on Light, during the Euroluce's exhibition. Kino Workshop publishes competitions so that the ideas brought up by young professionals and students are able to be materialized and transformed into a useful contribution to reach energy saving, by means of " Sustainability and Integration".

A real workshop, experimenting the possibilities and philosophy of light, alternative energy, system integration, energy saving, to be transmitted to those attracted by it, highlighting the usefulness of such solutions, also as far as cost-effective management is concerned.

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