PROFILE
 


DAVIDE PRETE

  • Education

    FONTBONNE UNIVERSITY, Saint Louis, MO: Jan 2010-Present

  • Master in Art /  Sculpture

    • INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE INSTITUTE, Washington DC,(USA):Oct 2008-Dec 2009

  • ESL­­ / TOEFL Program

    • SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY, Saint Louis, MO: Jan 2008-May  2008

  • ESL Program

    • UNIVERSITA' IUAV DI VENEZIA, Venice (Italy): 1993-2003

  • Undergraduate  and Graduate Degrees Programmes in Architecture. GPA  106/110
  • Final Thesis: “Restoration and Rescue of Nineteenth Century Neo-Gothic Greenhouse at Villa Albrizzi Franchetti in Treviso”.
  • UNESCO, (KRK Island), Croatia: 2001
    Member of the International Omisalj Pilot Project for the  sustainable development of the Island

    • ISTITUTO STATALE D’ARTE DI VENEZIA, (Venice), Italy:  1989-1994

  • Diploma in Applied Arts. GPA 60/60

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    Licensure

    Licensed to practice in Italy  

    (Order of Architects, Planners, Landscape Designers and Curators of Treviso)

  • Successfully passed all sections of the Architects Registrations Examinations on the first attempt at the Palermo University of Architecture in 2004.

    • Work Experience

    STUDIO ARCHITETTO TONI FOLLINA, Treviso (Italy): Jan 2005 – Jan 2008

    An internationally recognized studio specialized in private and commercial  architecture, interiors and landscape design. Winner of the 2007 International Architecture Award for Best New Global Design.

    Design Architect

  • Leader of design team, responsible for conceptual design, design development  and production of graphic presentation materials.

  • Develop initial design and conceptual estimates.  Assure the generation of an adequate variety of conceptual design alternatives to satisfy the client needs and the requirements of the project specifications.
  • Leading individual contributor and coordinator of design problem solving.  Prepare and write construction documents, specification for routine and complex construction projects.
  • Responsible for building CAD drawings based on information provided by customer and engineers.
  • Prepared plans and coordinated engineering

  • Development of construction details

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    STUDIO ARCHITETTO DAVIDE PRETE, Treviso (Italy):  2004 – Jan 2008

    Own architecture studio dedicated to small residential interior design and architectural projects

    Senior Project Architect

  • Complete responsibility for client contact, design development and construction documentation.

  • Prepared plans and coordinated engineering
  • Development of construction details

    • PRETE ALESSANDRO SNC, Treviso (Italy) : 1994 – Jan 2008

    Privately held firm specialized in artist blacksmithing, custom design for estate work and retail.

    Designer and Artist Blacksmith

  • Designed and hand crafted particular iron (and other metals) furniture, interior decoration elements and sculpture.


  • Responsible for conceptual design, design development  and production of graphic presentation materials.
  • Prepare and write construction documents.
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  • Responsible for building CAD drawings based on information provided by customer and engineers.
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  • Development of construction details.
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    Technical  Skills
  • Autodesk AutoCAD to 2008 2d/3d /  Revit to 9.1(Autodesk Certificate) / VIZ and Max 2008, 3d modelling and rendering (Autodesk Certificate)

  • Microsoft Office to 2008 (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)

  • Adobe Suite to CS2 (Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, Indesign)
  • Google SketchUp Pro

  • Bentley  MicroStation  V8 XM
  • O.S. Windows to Vista

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    Professional Development Courses

    UNIVERSITA' DI GENOVA - AIM, Genoa (Italy): 2005

  • Attended metallography classes for maintenance of historical buildings  



    STS     , Padua (Italy):  2006-2007
  • Course for coordinating projects and execution of work.  European guideline 97/52 CEE

  • Course of metric calculations, accounting management  and construction work management.

  • Course of wood works for architecture

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    Publications, prices,

    articles

     
  • University Project published in the book: “Il ferro Battuto” 2002
  • Art Work published in the magazine “Ephaistos” 2002
  •   University Project “La biblioteca di Babele”  published in: “Primi esercizi di composizione, L’architettura degli elementi: l’edificio isolato”  F. Franco, Ed. Cartotecnica Veneziana, Venezia, 1996
  • Project published in the “The Game & Park Industries” Feb. 2008
  • Won  in 2002-2003 Award for best design object or element for home decoration in Padua.
  • Won in 2001 first price at International Exposition of Stia.
  • Won in 1995 first price  sculpture competition "La Roggia"
  • Won in 1996 first price  forging competition Veroli.
  • Participations in several Italian exposition (Stia, Veroli, Vittorio Veneto, Treviso) and international exposition (Helfstin in Rep. Ceca, Iron Bridge in U.K., Gotha in Germany )
  • La Tribuna di Treviso Oct. 24, 2006 (about the sculpture “Luce e Ombra”)
  • La Tribuna di Treviso Oct. 31, 2006 (about the sculpture “Luce e Ombra”)

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    Language                    
  • Italian: Native Speaker
  • English: Advance (TOEFL score 96)

    •   Artist Statement

    The making process is something that characterize humanity.  Making something with our hands and transform simple materials in objects useful for our body or/and mind, connect our self to one higher level of utility for others.  Artists maybe have the gift/duty to do/give something even if sometime this could be selfish.

     As an artist, I think about functions, forms, materials. I try to impose to myself some limits that can help me to work better, to concentrate. For  family tradition, knowledge, and feeling I chose to work with a three dimensional  objects and with metals.  After I chose to work with few metals per each work.  Normally, I start from a rigid, rigorous, geometric composition because it give me some rule that I have to follow. I try to transform this geometric imposition until the moment that the geometry disappear and a soft shape appears.

    Having  some limits is not limitative for creativity. Everybody has some and I think that I have a lot.  With the passage of time I’m discovering that limits help me to realize new quality of myself and it is amazing when I finish a sculpture or a furniture with this qualities in that object.

    I like connect the tradition with our time. For this reason, I love to work with iron forging but in contemporary way . I like to play with materials. I would that materials have a dialogue or a confrontation. The darken forged iron with the shining brushed stainless steel.  Rectangular section with/against circular section.  Soft shapes and nervy figures. Dualism is not only an oriental culture but it is present in every religion, philosophy and  in the everyday choices. Maybe the work of an artist is to make choice and I think that  I’m working in order to discover what are the best choices for my art