Architect Kuno Mayr has developed a rigorous way of working. Through a long and laborious procedure, things otherwise overlooked are saved from abandonment and neglect so as to reappear transfigured and ennobled as works of architecture. AUTHOR: Kuno Mayr (1969, San Candido, South Tyrol). Lives and works in VeniceArchitect with a PhD in Architectural Composition from the IUAV University of Venice. Visiting Professor at the Faculty of architecture of the University of Parma in Design and Planning Workshops. Teaches Modelling at the IED European Institute of Design in Venice. From 2000 to 2007, architect at the Renato Rizzi firm in Venice: 1st prize in a competition to design The Elizabethan Theatre in Gdansk; 3rd prize in a competition for The Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, along with Professor Massimo Scolari. 75 illustrations, 56 in colour