Marco Casagrande, (born May 7, 1971 in Turku, Finland) is a Finnish architect, writer and professor of architecture. He graduated from Helsinki University of Technology department of architecture (2001).
Casagrande was born to a well-off Finnish-Italian Catholic family. He was raised in Ylitornio in the Finnish Lapland before moving to Helsinki to study architecture.
After his service in the Finnish Army, in 1993 Casagrande volunteered for the Bo...
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Marco Casagrande, (born May 7, 1971 in Turku, Finland) is a Finnish architect, writer and professor of architecture. He graduated from Helsinki University of Technology department of architecture (2001).
Casagrande was born to a well-off Finnish-Italian Catholic family. He was raised in Ylitornio in the Finnish Lapland before moving to Helsinki to study architecture.
After his service in the Finnish Army, in 1993 Casagrande volunteered for the Bosnian Croat Defence Forces HVO. He wrote under name Luca Moconesi a controversial book Mostarin tien liftarit / Hitchhikers on the Road to Mostar (WSOY 1997) about his experiences in the Bosnian Civil War. Based on descriptions of war crimes committed by the main character in the autobiographical book, he came under suspicion as a possible war criminal. As a defence, he later stated that the book was in fact a work of fiction.
After being a finalist in the UK journal Architectural Review's Emerging Architecture competition (1999) Marco...
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