Zucchi brings more than 30 years’ experience at BDP and is recognised, the company says, as one of the practice’s most respected design leaders. His work as an architect spans healthcare, education, housing and major masterplanning projects across the UK and internationally, including landmark buildings such as Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital and the new National Children’s Hospital in Dublin.
His approach to design has been shaped by a belief that architecture should improve everyday life, bringing together disciplines, listening to communities and creating places that respond to people and place. These ideas are reflected in his recent book, Big House, Little City, which offers a compelling approach to the design of projects within an ecological perspective: the sense that big and small, cities and buildings must be approached holistically.
He has been a strong advocate for multidisciplinary working and architecture as a civic art. Alongside Harding, he recently co-authored the Guiding Principles of Good Design, reaffirming values that have shaped BDP since its foundation: socially progressive thinking, collaboration across disciplines and commitment to creating places that stand the test of time. These principles continue to underpin BDP’s ambition to design a world that, it says, is “built for good”.
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