Fosco Lucarelli

Born in Rome, Italy, in 1981, Fosco Lucarelli is an architect (University of Roma 3, ETSAM Madrid), teacher, and scientific curator based in Paris. He co-founded the Microcities agency and since 2006 has been conducting independent architectural research through the online visual atlas SOCKS. He has taught project workshops and theory courses in Paris (ESA, 2011-12) and Rotterdam (Miard, Piet Zwart Institute, 2018). In 2017-18, he was a visiting professor at the UIC School of Architecture in Chicago as a D. Galofaro Fellow. In 2018, he received a research grant from the Graham Foundation and was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome (FAAR'18). Since 2016, he has been teaching at the School of Architecture, City and Territory, where he currently leads a third-year project workshop, supervises a fourth- and fifth-year research seminar in the Architecture & Experience master's program (directed by Éric Lapierre), and oversees second-year thesis writing. Since 2016, he has been a research assistant in Éric Lapierre's project workshop at the École Fédérale d'Architecture de Lausanne.
Fosco Lucarelli was guest curator at the 2016 Lisbon Architecture Biennial (The Form of Form) and is currently a member of the scientific curatorial team for the 2019 Lisbon Architecture Triennale (The Poetics of Reason). He has written for various publications and his work and research have been exhibited in New York, Paris, Rome, and Seoul, among other cities.