Studio
Th&Ma Architettura was founded in 2011, formalizing a collaboration between architects Clemente and Giacomo di Thiene and Silvia Magro, which began in 1994 and is based on both academic research and professional practice. Today, the firm operates — from its offices in Padua and Venice’s historic center— as a dynamic, multidisciplinary practice, with a flexible structure and a broad range of skills that allow it to assist its clients from the development of initial ideas to the design of furniture and other detailed elements.
The firm works across a wide range of sectors for both national and international clients, managing every stage of the project lifecycle. Its services extend from building maintenance and restoration to innovation through structural and systems upgrades, as well as all complementary interventions. This comprehensive approach continues through to the refinement of architectural details and the design of bespoke furnishings.
A long-standing collaboration with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, along with repeated engagements in the installation of national pavilions—particularly those of the United States and Russia—at The Venice Biennale – International Art and Architecture Exhibitions, has enabled the studio to cultivate robust expertise in the design, coordination, and realization of museum and exhibition spaces.
The studio’s extensive experience in the conservation and enhancement of monumental complexes has evolved over many years through the restoration of numerous historic sites. Among the most significant—also for the continuity of the partnership—are the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the Porto Colleoni castle-villa, and Villa Valmarana “ai Nani” in Vicenza, where the restoration of the park was recently completed with funding from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).
The firm has also developed strong capabilities in architectural surveying, approached in its most advanced and comprehensive sense. This includes not only the accurate measurement of the built structure, but also the identification of its structural components, materials, construction techniques, and decorative systems.
Specific expertise has also been developed in the design of commercial and residential buildings, and particularly in the design of theatres—a design process that is consistently engaging due to the wide range of aspects requiring consideration and the need for careful, precise coordination among the many professionals who must be involved.
The team

Giacomo di Thiene
Architect
1997 – Architecture degree from the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV).
Important experience gained before graduating with the studio of the architect Winfried Brenne in Berlin.
1997-2006 – Teaching work at the IUAV in Venice and Milan Polytechnic, in Architectural Restoration and Surveying.
1998 – Enrolment on the Register of Architects, Planners, Landscape designers and Conservators in the province of Venice.
1998 – Professional work with the architect Clemente di Thiene, at the Architetti di Thiene studio.
1998-2000 – Work with Gadola s.p.a. in Milan and Padua (consultancy for restoration works in Venice, worksite organisation, optimisation of work processes, feasibilities studies, cost analyses and drafting of quotes for numerous public and private calls for tenders).
2000 – Qualification as Design Coordinator and Works Coordinator, in accordance with D.Lgs 81/2008 and s.m.i.
2011 – Co-founder of Th&Ma Architettura, with the architects Clemente di Thiene and Silvia Magro.

Silvia Magro
Architect
1993 – Degree in architecture from the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia.
1993 – Professional association with the surveyor Gianfranco Magro at the Magro studio (design, restoration, works direction and worksite safety coordination in Padua and Vicenza, property analyses, estimations and party-appointed consultancy on residential and commercial properties in Padua, Bologna, Treviso, Rimini, La Spezia, Rome and Milan).
1993-2002 – Teaching work at the IUAV, Venice, on Surveying and Photo-topography.
1996 – Enrolment on the Register of Architects, Planners, Landscape designers and Conservators in the province of Padua.
1997 – Qualification as Design Coordinator and Works Coordinator, in accordance with D.Lgs 81/2008 and s.m.i.
2009 – Masters from the Law Faculty at Padua University in ‘Cultural Heritage and Landscape Law and Economics’.
2011 – Co-founder of Th&Ma Architettura, with the architects Clemente di Thiene and Giacomo di Thiene.

Zuleika Esposto
Architect
2002 – Architecture degree from the IUAV, Venice. Thesis: “Reading and design of the architectural surfaces of historic Venice buildings: constituent characteristics, dynamics of change and legal questions. The design-cases of Campo S. Maria Mater Domini, Campo S. Cassiano, Campo S. Margherita”.
2001-2003 – Work with Venetian architectural studios specialising in Restoration.
2003 – Participation in the research “Natural catastrophes and their consequences for Italian culture and environment. Mitigation and prediction of some types of event” in particular, on the “Methods of estimating and of rapid experimental verification of parameters of seismic vulnerability of historic masonry” in the context of the ENEA-MURST programme with ICR.
2003-2004 – Work with the IUAV company Studi &Progetti s.r.l. (studies and surveys of deterioration and instability, design for the restoration and conservative upgrading of the former Santa Marta military barracks in Verona).
2004 – Enrolment on the Register of Architects, Planners, Landscape designers and Conservators in the province of Venice.
2005 – Qualification as Design Coordinator and Works Coordinator, in accordance with D.Lgs 81/2008 and s.m.i.
2005 – Work with the Studio di Thiene, Venice.
2011 – Joins the Th&Ma team.

Thomas Moretti
Architect
2000-2001 – Erasmus scholarship at the Ecole d’Architecture ‘La Villette’, Paris, France.
2003 – Degree in the History and Conservation of Architectural and Environmental Heritage from the IUAV, Venice. Thesis “Forte Gazzera: between past and future”.
2003 – ‘Forte Gazzera’ Prize awarded by the Comitato per la Salvaguardia del Forte Gazzera for the thesis “Forte Gazzera: between past and future”.
2007 – Degree in Architecture from the IUAV, Venice. Thesis: “On tiptoes: artists’ studios at Polcenigo Castle”.
2007 – Distinction for degree thesis “Forte Gazzera: between past and future” at the 4th Fortified Architecture Degree Prize by the Istituto Italiano dei Castelli.
2007 – Work with the Studio di Thiene, Venice.
2008 – Enrolment on the Register of Architects, Planners, Landscape designers and Conservators in the province of Venice.
2008-2010 – Teaching 2D and 3D modelling.
2011 – Joins the Th&Ma team.

Arianna Remoli
Architect
1996 – Architecture degree from the IUAV, Venice. Thesis: “The Gran Teatro La Venezia: the 1937 restoration”.
1996 – Enrolment on the Register of Architects, Planners, Landscape designers and Conservators in the province of Gorizia, transfer to the Venice Register in 2004.
1996 – Work with the architect G. Gianighian on rebuilding the Teatro La Fenice, Venice, after the fire of 1995.
1996-2002 – Work with Sat Survey s.r.l. on surveys of some architectural complexes (Castello Sforzesco in Milan, Reggia di Venaria Reale in Turin, Certosa di Vedana in Belluno, and in Venice the church of Santo Stefano, the Gallerie dell’Accademia e Accademia di Belle Arti, the former ‘Manifattura Tabacchi’ complex, the Torre dell’Orologio and the Teatro La Fenice).
2001 – Work on various surveys of public buildings (former heating system at Santa Lucia station, Venice, for Opera Due s.r.l.-gruppo Maltauro, ‘Caserma Mocenigo’ complex – former San Govanni convent at Giudecca for the Magistrato alle Acque di Venezia, Campo and Rio terà S. Andrea and Fondamenta S. Caterina for Insula Spa, former villa Brandolini d’Adda in Asolo for the Comune of Farra di Soligo).
2001 – Planning and works direction for rebuilding and restoration works on private buildings in Veneto and in Friuli Venezia Giulia.
2000-2005 – Teaching at the IUAV, Venice, on courses relating to surveying and restoration.
2006 – Work with the Studio di Thiene, Venice.
2010 – Teaching at the Centro Europeo per i Mestieri del Patrimonio in Thiene, with lessons on surveying for restoration.
2011 – Joins the Th&Ma team.

Davide Savio
Surveyor
1999 – Diploma in Surveying from the I.T.S.G. ‘Antonio Canova’, Vicenza.
2000 – Work with the Studio Magro, Padua.
2004 – Qualification as Design Coordinator and Works Coordinator, in accordance with D.Lgs. 494/96 and s.m.i..
2005 – Enrolment in the Collegio dei Geometri della Provincia di Vicenza.
Compulsory and optional training on security, cadastral activities and property valuing, acoustics and energy certification, technical regulations on buildings.
Regular work as consultant for security with Studio 5 of Padua for Generali Gestione immobiliare.
Works direction activity, party-appointed consultancy, surveys, estimations, topographic relief successions and cadastral updates.
2011 – Joins the Th&Ma team.

Myriam Casciello
Architect
2000-2001 – Erasmus scholarship at the Université Sorbonne, Paris, France.
2003 – Degree in the History and Conservation of Architectural and Environmental Heritage from the IUAV, Venice. Thesis “Forte Gazzera: between past and future”.
2003 – ‘Forte Gazzera’ Prize awarded by the Comitato per la Salvaguardia del Forte Gazzera for the thesis “Forte Gazzera: between past and future”.
2003 – Work with the Studio di Thiene, Venice.
2007 – Degree in Architecture from the IUAV, Venice. Thesis: “On tiptoes: artists’ studios at Polcenigo Castle”.
2007 – Distinction for degree thesis “Forte Gazzera: between past and future” at the 4th Fortified Architecture Degree Prize by the Istituto Italiano dei Castelli.
2009 – Enrolment on the Register of Architects, Planners, Landscape designers and Conservators in the province of Bergamo, in 2011 transfer to the Venice Register.
2010 – Qualification as Design Coordinator and Works Coordinator, in accordance with D.Lgs 81/2008 and s.m.i.
2011 – Joins the Th&Ma team.

Eufemia Piizzi
Architect
2008 – Architecture degree from the IUAV, Venice. Thesis: “The analogue museum: an interface for the Palazzo della Ragione in Padua and its astrological cycle”.
2008-2011 – Work with the MeLa Media Lab (IUAV), concerned with research, experimentation and development on subjects of representation, communication and interaction applied to the communication of architecture, design and Cultural Heritage.
2009 – Work with the TA Architettura studio, Venice.
2010 – Research fellowship entitled ‘Figures and models of ideal cities’ as part of the “MIC – My Ideal City” research project, financed by the European Union for testing the use of shared virtual environments in the sphere of a public comparison on the subjects of construction of the city of the near future.
2012 – Enrolment on the Register of Architects, Planners, Landscape designers and Conservators in the province of Venice.
2012 – Joins the Th&Ma team.

Giulia Francesca Tavone
Architect
2007 – Work with various architectural studios in Vicenza and Venice.
2008 – Architecture degree from the IUAV of Venice. Thesis: “The Lazzaretto Vecchio, an island for the Venice archaeological museum”.
2009 – Participation in the European Leonardo da Vinci programme, with training course in Seville, Spain.
2011 – Joins the Th&Ma team.
2013 – Enrolment on the Register of Architects, Planners, Landscape designers and Conservators in the province of Vicenza.
2016 – Enrolment on the Register of Architects, Planners, Landscape designers and Conservators in the province of Venice.

Caterina Capuzzo
Architect
2019 – Internship at Associazione Culturale Di Architettura for the organisation of “Aldo Rossi e la ragione. Architetture 1967-1997” exposition
2019 – Bachelor’s degree in Architeture: techniques and cultures of the project at IUAV University of Venice
2021 – Internship at Th&Ma studio
2023 – Master’s degree in Architecture at IUAV University of Venice with the thesis titled “Aqua in urbe. The urban regeneration of Ravenna docks through the design of a cultural park”
2023 – Joins the Th&Ma Team
2025 – Enrolment on the Register of Architects, Planners, Landascape designers and Conservators in the Province of Padova, Italy

Margarita Petrova
Architect
2017-2019 – Collaboration with various architecture and engineering studios in Moscow.
2019 – Participation in the bilateral program at the École nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-Val de Seine in Paris, France
2020 – Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture at the Moscow Institute of Architecture (State Academy). Thesis: “Urban regeneration of post-industrial zones in Moscow”.
2023 – Masters’s Degree in Conservation of Architecture at the Sapienza University of Rome. Thesis: “Historical study, conservation and reuse of the Owiesno Castle in Lower Silesia, Poland”.
2023 – Internship at the Superintendence for Architectural Heritage at the Vatican Museums.
2023 – Joins the Th&Ma team.
2025 – Enrolment on the Register of Architects, Planners, Landscape designers and Conservators in the province of Venice.

Shakiba Amjadian
Doctor of Architecture
2017- Bachelor Degree in Architectural Engineering at the Art University of Tabriz, Iran
2018- Self-employed interior designer (Tabriz, Iran)
2023- Master of Science in Historic Building Rehabilitation at the University of Bologna. Thesis title” Application of GBC Italy Rating system on a historical building: Assessment of the energy performance in the restoration of the Casa “Dell’Ortolano” in Ferrara, Italy.
2023- Collaboration with Studio XII-Architect’s workroom in Żebbuġ, Malta.
2024- Joins the Th&Ma Team.

Çağlar Çağlanur
Doctor of Architecture
2018 – Bachelor’s degree in Architeture (Erasmus student) at Politecnico di Bari in Bari,Italy
2021 Bachelor’s degree in Architeture at Atılım University in Ankara,Türkiye
2021-2022 – Collaborated as a junior architect at the Özer/Ürger Architects in Ankara,Türkiye
2021 – Master’s degree in Art History, Criticism and Conservation at Ankara university in Ankara,Türkiye
2022 – Master’s degree in Architecture at IUAV University of Venice
2024 – Joins the Th&Ma Team

Evgeniia Sytina
Doctor of Architecture
2021 – Bachelor’s degree in Architecture at Moscow’s Architectural Institute (State Academy)
2023 – Curricular internship at the Well-Tech Studio. Arch. Chiara Cantono.
2023 – Internship at the studio Francesca Oggioni Architects in Milan, Italy
2024 – Master’s degree in Architecture – Built Environment – Interiors at Politecnico di Milano with the thesis on the topic of “Repurposing ideological architecture: Transformation of Pionerskyi prospect, Anapa, with a focus on Yubileinyi camp.”
2024 – Internship at the Powerhouse Company in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
2025 – Joins of Th&Ma.

Ayelen Betsabe Zucotti
Doctor of Architecture
2015 – Degree in Architecture from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina). Thesis: “Pause.”
2015-2023 Collaborator in several public projects of institutional architecture and territorial planning.
2016-2020 Teaching activity at UNVM (Argentina), in the subject of Environmental and Territorial Ordering.
2019-2022 Collaborator in the Technical Planning Secretariat of the UNVM (Argentina).
2023-2024 Collaborator with Studio Xatafi in Getafe (Madrid, Spain).
2024 – Máster in ‘Proyectos Arquitectónicos Avanzados’ at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid – MPAA’15’. Thesis: ‘La institución, una arquitectura de conflictos. Los museos Munch en Oslo”.
2024 – Publication of the article, “The tags associated with the Munch Museum and its relationship to the Oslo community,” in EURAU conference, Politecnico di Milano.
2024 – Joins of Th&Ma.

