Carmelo Gagliano (MSc, PhD student)
Architectural Design degree, class LM-4 C.U. Overall Mark: 110/110 cum Laude and honorable mention.
The master thesis concerning the reuse of an unfinished building in the Roman countryside (Tor Vergata), curriculum Architectural and Urban Composition-ICAR/14, University of Ferrara, 2019.
PhD student for the course “Architecture. Theories and Project” XXXVII cycle at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 2021.
He studies between Italy and Canada, winning a scholarship at the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Vancouver.
From 2015 to 2017 he was teaching assistant for the departments of Architecture and Civil Engineering in Ferrara.
While still a student, he joined in Copenhagen at Bjarke Ingels Group studio. He works for a year on architectural projects in all phases and on the exhibition entitled “Formgiving”, within the Danish Architecture Center-BLOX.
He participates for international competitions and workshops, obtaining various awards, including the Architectural Thesis Award 2020, promoted by Archistart with a jury composed by Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia AF517, Francesco Lipari OFL architecture, Giacomo Potì and Tommaso Santoro Cayro.
Furthermore, he receives the Excellence Award for International Studies from the University of Ferrara.
Selected by Politecnico di Milano for the works of DEEPbrera international workshop (June / November 2016 - honorable mention), he draws up an extension project for the spaces of the Accademia and the enhancement of its historical heritage. Preliminary to the design action was the re-design and close reading of the first proposal of extension of the Accademia, developed in several stages by Terragni, Lingeri, Figini, Pollini and Mariani in the Thirties.
Just graduated, he moves in Paris and working for Dominique Perrault Architecture studio where in 2020 he curates the Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in Seoul SBAU 2021. He currently works for the same agency dealing with architectural design, urban and landscape planning, exhibition design and museography.