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== Themes == Several critics, including Ana Araujo, have linked Cardillo's work to themes of ritual, myth, atmosphere and psychological depth. In an essay for The Journal of Architecture, Araujo analysed House of Dust through the lens of haptic perception, drawing on Alois Riegl's notion of Nahsicht to describe how the project intensifies material proximity and blurs the boundary between seeing and touching. She argues that this produces an embodied, tactile mode of visual experience rooted in phenomenology. In a subsequent essay, she also interpreted several of his interiors in terms of ritual and the "poetics of everyday enchantment", suggesting that their atmospheres evoke archetypal settings where images lose historical specificity to become emotional deposits in the unconscious, drawing on modes of spatial symbolism. Critics writing in publications such as Dezeen and Birkhäuser's Thinking Color in Space have noted that colour and materiality play a central role in his interiors. Birkhäuser's volume analysed the chromatic and material strategies of House of Dust and Specus Corallii, highlighting their use of inherent and applied colour to construct immersive atmospheres and to articulate a spatial approach grounded in architectural aesthetics. According to the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich, Cardillo has engaged with Analytical Psychology and Jungian ideas in academic seminars, including a lecture titled "Depth Architecture – The Aesthetic Nature of the Psyche", where he discussed the relationship between architecture, depth and the psyche, drawing in part on the archetypal psychology of James Hillman. In a conversation published in L'Arca International, Paolo Portoghesi noted parallels between Carl Gustav Jung's notion of "primordial images" and themes he identified in Cardillo's work. Institutions such as the Royal College of Art and the Rome Video Game Lab have discussed his work in relation to the narrative structures of video games: a lecture at the Royal College of Art referenced Grand Theft Auto IV, while at the Rome Video Game Lab he took part in a panel discussion at the Cinecittà Studios exploring the relationship between architecture, video games and digital narrative forms.
== Exhibitions == Cardillo has presented his work in academic and cultural institutions. In 2015 his sculptural series Min was exhibited at the Sir John Soane's Museum in London, where Ana Araujo discussed its exploration of ritual, materiality and everyday enchantment. He delivered lectures at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, the Royal College of Art, the Rome Video Game Lab, held at the Cinecittà Studios, the Dessau Institute of Architecture, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences and Bauhaus Dessau, and at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich. He also took part in collective exhibitions, including the DNA Exhibition at the Horse Hospital in London (2009), a group show inspired by the music of John Foxx, and Wallpaper*'s Future 30 show at the Chabot Museum during the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (2009). His works were also featured in the architecture festival Open House Roma. House of Dust was included in the 2021 and 2023 editions, while Off Club – later renamed Anima Restaurant and Club – was selected for the 2024 edition.
== Reception == Cardillo's work has been discussed in architectural, design and academic publications. Casabella devoted an essay by Francesco Dal Co to his work, characterising his architecture as operating "in the interval where the improbable becomes verisimilar" and proposing domestic spaces where appearance and form coincide. Architects' Journal described House of Dust as an essay in "design as theatre", while the XXI Triennale di Milano situated the project within broader histories of interior architecture. In its typological study of nightclubs, The Architectural Review presented Off Club as a case study, highlighting its monolithic geometric volumes, cinematic references and chthonic atmosphere, and noting how Cardillo's textured plasterwork and gold surfaces create a space of hieratic mystery. Design and architecture publications such as Dezeen, Wallpaper*, Sight Unseen, Yellowtrace, Casabella, Abitare la Terra and L'Arca have featured his projects, often highlighting their textured surfaces, chromatic atmospheres and theatrical spatial compositions. His interiors were also included in surveys and lookbooks on contemporary uses of colour and plaster, and in reports on innovative luxury spaces. In the 2025 edition of the architectural guide Architekturführer Rom, Stefan Grundmann situated Off Club within a lineage running from Le Corbusier to Carlo Scarpa, emphasising its sharply modelled plaster surfaces, autonomous geometric fragments, theatrical staging and psychological resonance.
== Influence == Contemporary designers such as Oliver Haslegrave and Lara Bohinc have cited Cardillo's work as an influence in their creative research. Haslegrave, of Home Studios, listed Cardillo among the references for the interior of the West Hollywood bar Bibo Ergo Sum, alongside Josef Hoffmann, Otto Wagner and Alvar Aalto. Designer Lara Bohinc has also mentioned Cardillo as one of the architects, alongside figures such as Carlo Scarpa, whose work informs her creative research. Pierre Yovanovitch also cited Cardillo as the most radical architect in his selection of four emerging international designers for the Brazilian magazine Bamboo, noting the narrative coherence and expressive force of his interiors, particularly Crepuscular Green. International trend‑forecasting agencies also identified House of Dust as a reference within their analyses of emerging aesthetic, material and colour tendencies. WGSN included the project in "Data Divination", a chapter of its macro‑trend report for Autumn/Winter 2015–16, while LS:N Global discussed it within the design‑direction study Anti‑Materials. Texworld's Spring/Summer 2015 trend book featured the project in the section "Architectural Cocoon", and the Noroo Pantone Colour Institute, a colour‑forecasting institute affiliated with Pantone, included it in the "Floating & Ambiguity" chapter of its colour‑forecasting volume Cover All 2018–2019.
== Selected works == The following projects represent a selection of Cardillo's built works.
House of Dust (2013), Rome Colour as a Narrative (2015), London Specus Corallii (2016), Trapani Off Club (2018), Rome Elogio del grigio (2023), Castiglione delle Stiviere
== External links == Official website
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