About Marco Casagrande and Menno Cramer

Marco Casagrande, an environmental artist and architect, and Menno Cramer, a design strategist and neuroscientist, co-wrote Skin to Skin Architecture as a poetic and critical response to the hard, detached surfaces of modern urbanism. Their work weaves together art, biology, and built form, creating spaces that breathe, touch, and respond. Rooted in biourbanism, environmental psychology, and narrative design, they explore architecture as a living membrane between the human body and the world.

In 2025, Casagrande and Cramer presented Skin to Skin Architecture at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Their talk explored the intimate dialogue between body and building, challenging traditional boundaries between subject and structure. Through the lens of biourban acupuncture, cognitive sanctuaries, and living materials, they proposed a new architectural language, one that listens, adapts, and connects at the scale of skin.

Both are active members of the International Society of Biourbanism and have collaborated on numerous projects focused on regenerative urbanism and environmental design, including Paracity, a pioneering model of organic, self-organizing urban growth rooted in human-nature symbiosis.