Pg.Cert. Pedagogical Studies, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart; Ph.D. Aarhus School of Architecture; M.Sc. Building Architecture, Polytechnic University of Milan and Polytechnic University of Turin (Double Degree Alta Scuola Politecnica); B.Arch Building Architecture, Polytechnic University of Milan
Angela Gigliotti is a senior architect, researcher and educator. Since 2015 she has been the co-founder and co-director of the research based practice OFFICE U67 ApS. She authored the Ph.D. monographic thesis The Labourification of Work (Aarhus Arkitektskolen, 2020) and was Visiting PhD Candidate at the Architectural Association – School of Architecture of London (2018) in the City/Architecture Group (Prof. Dr. Pier Vittorio Aureli).
Most recently, she was academic guest at the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zürich (2021-2025) at the Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design (Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete), first as the HM Queen Margrethe II’s Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at the Det Danske Institut i Rom, then as the Roma Calling Fellow 2024/2025 at Istituto Svizzero. As such she has self-initiated two research projects Unheard workers (Carlsberg Foundation, 2021-24) and The Italian Ticinification (2025-ongoing).
Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the ArchitekturWerkstatt Institut für Architektur OST Ostschweizer Fachhochschule (2025-2027) contributing to the SNF-funded research project ASR: Aerial Spatial Revolution – Aereoplanning Group (Prof. Dr. Katrin Albrecht). Over the past decade, Gigliotti has served as a Tenured Lecturer and Research Faculty at DIS Copenhagen, and as of Fall 2025, she has joined Syracuse University in Florence.
Gigliotti has authored numerous academic articles and book chapters, and edited three books. Her research explores architectural labor and production studies, diplomatic architecture, and transnational modes of production - particularly within the contexts of the Danish Welfare State, Danish colonialism, and Swiss coloniality.
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