Amphora architecture

To write about the architecture of wineries, wine cellars and vineyards is a challenge to which I will respond with the help of subjective memory. Architecture, people and wine are alike in the way they cover the whole spectrum between the sublime and the ridiculous, between cultural relevance and commerce, or even between art and vice.

I'll start with the diploma projects of architecture graduates, those bridges between their undergraduate studies and the title of architect that they will carry for the rest of their lives. I have often said that there is an unforgettable magic to this moment, this project that is unlike any other before or since. The difficult freedom to choose the theme, the place and the mentor for the diploma project, together with the responsibility to guide its development, growth and maturation on your own, make this project, which we all go through as future architects, an intense, special and unforgettable experience. Among the hundreds of diploma pr