Fabrizio Furiassi is an architect, researcher and educator from Rome, based in New York and Basel. He teaches architectural history and theory at Syracuse University, Parsons The New School, and the University of Basel, where he is the director of the Architectural Association Visiting School and a doctoral fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Furiassi’s recent studies focus on the environmental and social impact of concrete in Sicily, and he is currently an Art & Science fellow at the Swiss Institute of Palermo with a study on the Maxiprocesso and the architecture of the Aula Bunker. Besides academia, Furiassi has over 10 years of experience at cutting-edge architecture firms and cultural institutions in Italy, Japan and the United States. He has received the GSAPP Incubator Prize from Columbia University, and the Independent Projects Grant from the Architectural League of New York and New York State Council on the Arts.
Furiassi holds master’s degrees from Columbia University in New York and the University of Rome La Sapienza, where he taught urban and landscape design. He also studied at the Moscow Architectural Institute and was a research fellow at the Strelka Institute.
