Alessandro Petti

Details

Nationality

Italian

Classifications

Holder

Communal intergenerational

Source of authority

ReasonLived experience

Subject

Human centred

Political position

Subaltern resistant

Mode of transmission

Text drawing

Knowledge type

Relational embodied

Epistemic cluster

Western philosophical

Notes

[DRAFT] Italian architect, urbanist and researcher; PhD in Urbanism from IUAV Venice. In 2007, with Sandi Hilal and Eyal Weizman, he co-founded DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Research/Residency) in Beit Sahour, Palestine, exploring the reuse and subversion of colonial structures. With Hilal he founded Campus in Camps (2012). DAAR received the Golden Lion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Connections

• collaborated with Sandi Hilal
• proposed Decolonising Space

Referenced by

• Eyal Weizman collaborated with

Sources

1. Wikipedia. Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency. Wikipedia, 2024.
2. The Architect's Newspaper. A conversation with DAAR founders Alessandro Petti and Sandi Hilal, winners of a Golden Lion. archpaper.com, 2023.
3. Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti, Eyal Weizman. Decolonizing Architecture. Sternberg Press, 2013.