École d'architecture
de la ville & des territoires
Paris-Est

Mariabruna Fabrizi

    Mariabruna Fabrizi is an architect, teacher, and exhibition curator. She is currently based in Paris, where she co-founded the Microcities agency and the online atlas Socks-studio. In 2025, she defended her doctoral thesis in architecture on the construction of architectural imagination at the University of Paris-Est (UGE doctoral school), within the OCS laboratory, under the supervision of Sébastien Marot and co-supervision of Anna Rosellini. Her current research focuses on the spatialization of mental processes, the relationship between architecture and information, and the evolution of domestic space.

    Mariabruna Fabrizi joined the École d'Architecture de la Ville & des Territoires in 2015, where she teaches the history and theory of architectural representation as a senior lecturer and coordinates the “Representation” field. She is co-coordinator of the Architecture & Experience master's seminar. Previously, Mariabruna Fabrizi taught at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she was a research assistant, and at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.

    With her partner Fosco Lucarelli, she was guest curator at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale in 2016, curator and scenographer of the Inner Space exhibition at the Lisbon Triennale in 2019, and curator of the Database, Network, Interface: The Architecture of Information exhibition at the EPFL's Archizoom gallery in 2021. Together, they published the book Inner Space in 2019 with Poligrafa, and Database, Network, Interface with Caryatide in 2021.

    Enseignement
    • Enseigne en Licence – Responsable du champ Représentation
    • Enseigne en Master
    • Enseigne en Post-master

    Profile
    • PhD student at OCS from 2018 to 2025
    • Co-founder and architect at Microcities


    Thesis defended
    The Construction of Imagination
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    Towards the defense


    Articles and works (selection)

    • With Fosco Lucarelli: “The Craft of Collective Memory,” in AMAG PT, Portuguese Architecture Technical Magazine, No. 2: “Barbas Lopes Arquitectos,” June 2023

    • With Fosco Lucarelli: “A journey through architectural imagination,” in Cambridge Journal of Visual Culture, No. 2: “Archives,” to be published in 2023