Faculty Profile

Gabriele Mastrigli is an architect and critic living in Rome. He studied at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and at the RWTH Aachen (Germany). He investigates the relationship between architects' designing and writing, researching publishing as a critical form of architecture - the main subject of his PhD dissertation.

Since 1998 he has been teaching Theory and Design at Ascoli Piceno School of Architecture and Cornell University Rome Program and has been visiting lecturer and guest critic at Penn State University, Ohio State University, Yale University, Berlage Institute Rotterdam. Since 2000 he has been a consultant to the Italian Ministry of Culture's Department of Contemporary Art and Architecture.

He is a regular contributor to the national daily il manifesto and its cultural supplement Alias. His articles and essays appearead in Arquitectura Viva, Domus, Log, Lotus international, Volume and the chinese magazine World Architecture. In 2006 he published Junkspace, a critical anthology of Rem Koolhaas' recent writings (Quodlibet). In 2007 he was the curator of the exhibition Holland-Italy 10 Works of Architecture, promoted by the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Rome and hosted by the MAXXI-National Museum of the 21st Century Arts.