Set Architects is a Rome-based architecture practice led by Onorato Di Manno and Andrea Tanci.
The studio works across scales, from interiors and exhibition design to buildings and masterplans.
The work has received awards and is widely published internationally.
Practice is combined with academic research, with teaching at Sapienza Università di Roma, University of Iowa and IED Roma.
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Photo @francesca_degennaro
The course for the second semester 2025/2026 at @ied_roma centers on the design of a mobile cinema addressing socially engaged themes, conceived as a cultural and spatial device, developed in partnership with Maxibon.
More specifically, students will be required to develop an architectural proposal for ephemeral, demountable, and transportable structures, intended for temporary installation within schools and public squares. The project will investigate issues of adaptability, reversibility, material economy, and the relationship between temporary architecture and the public realm.
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City Housing Competition
Residential and Commercial Complex in Podgorica
Selected project
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The project investigates a distinctive yet restrained architecture, deeply rooted in its local context,
balancing creativity and functionality within realistic economic constraints. A clear architectural language
engages with the territory while addressing contemporary living needs.
The quality of collective housing is central to the proposal, with carefully organized spaces that enhance the relationship between buildings, green areas, and the surrounding landscape. Shared spaces are conceived
to support social interaction, safety, and a sense of community.
Flexibility guides the design of housing units and interiors, allowing adaptation to different household
structures and social needs. This approach enables the residential complex to evolve over time, promoting
an accessible, inclusive, and sustainable model of living.
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Project: Set Architects (Onorato di Manno, Andrea Tanci)
Collaborators: Maria Lidia Tamburro, Giorgia Carare, Marie Barfuss
Stucture and MEP: @fm_ingegneria
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Proposal for the new Laboratories Hub of the Spallanzani Research Institute in Rome.
An architecture conceived as a living organism: flexible, sustainable, and evolving.
Dynamic spaces designed for scientific research, where efficiency, connection, and collaboration shape the architecture itself.
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Structure, sustanaibility and MEP: @incideengineering
Collaborators: Maria Lidia Tamburro, Micol Licastro
Biologist: Miriam Cutrera
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House with a square window.
We transformed an unfinished rural structure in Fondi, southern Lazio, into a contemporary home for a young family with two dogs.
The project reimagines the country house with open, fluid spaces, warm materials, and minimal, precise gestures that connect interior and landscape. A large window frames the countryside, while sliding glass doors open to the garden.
A quiet, abstract façade and a curated garden unify and complete the transformation.
Photos: @willempab
Art direction: @evicand
#familyhouse #singlefamilyhome #architecture #design #architecturephotography #residential #houses #wood #stainlesssteel #plaster #ruralhouse #renovation #setarchitects
House with a square window.
We transformed an unfinished rural structure in Fondi, southern Lazio, into a contemporary home for a young family with two dogs.
The project reimagines the country house with open, fluid spaces, warm materials, and minimal, precise gestures that connect interior and landscape. A large window frames the countryside, while sliding glass doors open to the garden.
A quiet, abstract façade and a curated garden unify and complete the transformation.
Photos: @willempab
#familyhouse #singlefamilyhome #architecture #design #architecturephotography #residential #houses #wood #stainlesssteel #plaster #ruralhouse #renovation #setarchitects
Our new website and new identity are out now. Designed by @bahutstudio this new visual direction reflects Set Architect’s core principles in architecture and design: essential, archetypal, and non-generic. The renewed logo and website are central to this shift, echoed across printed materials and presentations.
set-architects.com
Located inside the 15th-century Palazzo Taverna, Casa Platform will be open to visitors during Open House on the weekends of May 24–25 and May 31–June 1.
More details available on the Open House Roma website.
Ph. Omar Golli
