Distributed Architecture is a New York-based design and research practice led by Fabrizio Furiassi. The practice is committed to designing participatory and instigative architecture that connects and strengthens communities. Distributed Architecture is a recipient of the NYSCA & The Architectural League of New York’s Independent Projects Grant 2022-2023, and the Columbia University GSAPP Incubator Prize 2021-2022 and 2022-2023. Current work of Distributed Architecture was selected for the upcoming Venice Biennale of Architecture, curated by Carlo Ratti.
Fabrizio Furiassi is an architect, researcher and educator from Rome, based in Basel and New York. He teaches architectural history and theory at The New School, Syracuse University in Florence, and the University of Basel, where he is the founder and programme head of the Architectural Association Visiting School Basel. Furiassi has over ten years of professional experience at architecture firms and cultural institutions across Asia, Europe and North America, including at Sou Fujimoto in Tokyo and Obra Architects in New York. He holds master’s degrees from Columbia University GSAPP and La Sapienza University of Rome. He also studied at the Moscow Architectural Institute, and was a research fellow at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design. Furiassi is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the University of Basel, Urban Studies department. His thesis traces the urbanization of Sicily during Italy’s postwar building boom, elucidating the social and spatial impacts of the Mafia’s concrete developments. The project is being supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Institute in Palermo. An introduction to the project was presented at Politecnico di Milano and published in Log 53: Why Italy Now?
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