MAS - Modern Apulian Style is an architecture, engineering and communication company always striking a balance between tradition, innovation and sustainability.
MAS deals with architectural and structural design, renovation, redevelopment and enhancement of the historical-architectural heritage and urban regeneration.

MAS is a research laboratory where creative minds, coming from different fields of study, are brought together.
The core of its research is the Mediterranean Living and the relationship between the city, the sea and the territory. Starting from a multidisciplinary approach, MAS deals with urban, social and cultural regeneration and view territories as ecosystems that it analyses by working closely with the communities that inhabit them.
MAS considers cities and the territory as complex and ever-changing organisms where memory becomes space and space becomes a door to the future.
MAS has its headquarters in Taranto, a southern European port-city, a pearl of the Mediterranean, a potential cultural hub between North and South, West and East.

Founding Partners

Engineer, CEO

He was awarded a Degree in Civil Engineering and a Master of Science in Management Engineering, from Politecnico di Bari, he is qualified to practice as an Industrial Engineer and is registered with the Order of Engineers of the Province of Taranto.

From 2010 to 2015 he has collaborated with various companies in particular in the field of project management, and in the field of analysis and management of energy saving policies for real estate/industrial complexes and for the creation of industrial/financial partnerships for energy production projects from renewable sources.

In 2016 he founded in Taranto, together with other professionals, an engineering, architecture and urban planning company called MAS – Modern Apulian Style, of which he is currently the CEO.

Thanks to this path, he got interested in architectural and structural design, in the renovation, redevelopment and enhancement of the historical-architectural heritage and in urban regeneration.

He is a member of the General Council of Confindustria Taranto and Vice President of the Innovative Services Section, with responsibility for the territory, tourism and cultural innovation. He is also a member of the Confindustria’s Technical Group of Tourism and Culture Industry.

Certifications:
•⁠ ⁠Expert Engineer in Building Systems, specialized in the Management of Complex Construction Projects
•⁠ ⁠Health and Safety Coordinator during the Design Phase (CSP) and Execution Phase (CSE)
•⁠ ⁠Certified Energy Assessor accredited by the Apulia Region

Architect, Technical Director

Graduated in Architecture at Università Federico II di Napoli, is qualified as an Architect and is registered with the Order of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architect, and Conservationists of the Province of Taranto.

Since 2006 he has been working as a freelancer, specializing in permits and authorization practices, urban planning regulations, architectural and urban planning, landscape design, construction management, safety coordination and testing of building structures.

In 2016, together with other professionals, he founded the engineering, architecture and urban planning company MAS – Modern Apulian Style in Taranto, of which he is currently Technical Director.

Thanks to MAS, he particularly focuses on: the theme of Mediterranean Living research, the architectural and structural recovery of historic buildings, the urban regeneration, the arrangement of urban green spaces, the works relating to the arrangement of natural or naturalized ecosystems, the protected natural areas and areas of wildlife importance, the works related to the landscape restoration of compromised territories, the interventions on structural elements of the landscape.

Certifications:
•⁠ ⁠Health and Safety Coordinator during the Design Phase (CSP) and Execution Phase (CSE)
•⁠ ⁠Certified Energy Assessor accredited by the Apulia Region

Journalist, Head of Communications

Graduated from the University of East London in Visual Theories: Film History, after a Master’s degree in Multimedia: Production, Cultures and Theories she works in the media field in the city of London.

Journalist, film critic, member of FIPRESCI (Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique), member of the SNCCI (National Union of Italian Film Critics), she is the author of essays and editor of numerous publications on film culture.

In 2009 she founded Gemma Lanzo Editore, a publishing house with a focus on cinema.

She collaborates with Alias, a cultural insert of Il Manifesto, and she has collaborated with the Rai Uno television broadcast Cinematografo.

In 2016 she founded, together with other professionals, the architecture and engineering company MAS – Modern Apulian Style, of which she is currently Head of Communications.

She was a contract professor at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, where she held a film and television criticism workshop.

In 2021 she founded Ella APS, of which she is President, which aims, among others, are to enhance culture, art and cinema as drivers of territorial development.

She is the creator and organizer of the MAS WEEK – Festival of Architecture, Design and Contemporary Art and of the Taranto Eco Film Festival, both held in Taranto.

Cultural innovation, Event & Research

  • 2024

MAS WEEK 2024 – In the Name of Peace

Festival of Architecture, Design and Contemporary Art organized by MAS and the Municipality of Taranto.
Workshop: Mediterranean Living in the Contemporary City.
Director: Gianluca Peluffo
Tutors: Walter Angelico (Università degli Studi di Palermo), Giuseppe Fallacara Chirico (Politecnico di Bari), Chiara Rizzi (Università degli Studi della Basilicata), Enzo Calabrese (Università degli Studi Chieti/Pescara), Ilia Celiento (Miralles Tagliabue EMBT), Domenico Faraco (Peluffo & Partners Architettura), Ubaldo Occhinegro (Studio MUA), Aser Giménez Ortega (MVRDV).

  • 2023

MAS WEEK 2023 – Sustainable is cool

Festival of Architecture, Design and Contemporary Art organized by MAS and the Municipality of Taranto.
Workshop: Through the beauty of the Ionic Arc.
Director: Gianluca Peluffo
Tutors: Tommaso Campiotti (Studio Alberto Campo Baeza, Madrid), Domenico Faraco (Peluffo & Partners Architettura, Savona), Ubaldo Occhinegro (Studio MUA, Bari), Aser Gimènez Ortega (MVRDV, Rotterdam).

  • 2021

MAS and Peluffo & Partners at the Venice Biennale

Inside the Italian Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Regione Puglia, Puglia Promozione and the Municipality of Taranto organized, with the curatorship of Domus magazine, a meeting on the topic of urban regeneration of Taranto. Among the interventions presented there was “Taranto Port-City Waterfront”, a project for the Port Network Authority of the Ionian Sea – Port of Taranto, by MAS – Modern Apulian Style and Peluffo & Partners for coastal defense interventions and pedestrian paths in Porta Napoli and under the Aragonese Walls in the Old Town.

  • 2021

DISEGNO/TURISMO – Taranto city of art: beautiful, sustainable, inclusive

Webinar organized by MAS in collaboration with the Municipality of Taranto and Port Network Authority of the Ionian Sea – Port of Taranto and in partnership with Ella APS. The webinar has the aim of ideally “designing” Taranto for tourists trying to visualize the city through overlapping layers that represent the urban spaces with inclusive and accessible places.

  • 2020

RiCreAttivaMenti – Campaign to discuss about Post Covid-19

Campaign created by MAS to discuss about Post Covid-19 through a journey started from Taranto in search of today’s visionaries. Architects, artists, poets, writers, actors, directors, designers, musicians and creatives were involved in a multimedia project where, in full pandemic, through video “pills” they told us how they have imagined the future.

  • 2019

MAS MEETS MATERA

MAS within the events of Matera 2019 – European Capital of Culture, has organized a week of discussions about economic development, territorial marketing, architecture, design, urban regeneration, culture, creativity and innovation.

  • 2019

MAS WEEK 2019 – A New Dress for a New City

Festival of Architecture, Design and Contemporary Art organized by MAS and the Municipality of Taranto.
Workshop: From the Sea to the Land.
Director: Gianluca Peluffo
Tutors: Alessio Battistella (ARCò, Milano), Marco Arioldi (Agence Rudy Ricciotti, Bandol), Domenico Faraco (Peluffo & Partners Architettura, Savona), Daniela Cavallo (Studio Linea Curva, Verona), Isidoro Pennisi (Università Mediterranea, Reggio Calabria).

  • 2018

MAS WEEK 2018 – Creativity is the future

Festival of Architecture, Design and Contemporary Art organized by MAS and the Municipality of Taranto.
Workshop: Creative District for Old Town.
Scientific Coordinator: Alessio Battistella
Tutors: Alessio Battistella (ARCò, Milano), Matteo Schubert (Alterstudio Partners, Milano), Gianluca Peluffo (Peluffo & Partners Architettura, Savona), Azzurra Muzzonigro (Stefano Boeri Architetti, Milano).

  • 2017

MAS WEEK 2017 – Change your point of you!

Festival of Architecture, Design and Contemporary Art organized by MAS and the Municipality of Taranto.
Workshop: The Form of the Territory. The Appia’s project. Walking a line.
Tutors: Alessio Battistella (ARCò, Milano), Jesus Donaire (ETSAM, Madrid), Tommaso Campiotti (Alberto Campo Baeza Architecture Studio, Madrid), Azzurra Muzzonigro (Stefano Boeri Architetti, Milano), Gianluca Peluffo (Peluffo & Partners Architettura, Savona).

Clients

PORT NETWORK AUTHORITY OF THE IONIAN SEA - PORT OF TARANTO / EIB – EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK / MUNICIPALITY OF GINOSA / MUNICIPALITY OF GROTTAGLIE / MUNICIPALITY OF LEPORANO / MUNICIPALITY OF MOTTOLA / MUNICIPALITY OF PALAGIANELLO / MUNICIPALITY OF TARANTO / LEMAR SRL / LGDF SRL / PROVINCE OF TARANTO / UCEBI