Alessandro’s work shown on this website results from different approaches to the condition of the embodied subject.
The ‘Body Agents’ series engages the representation of figures as actors in architecture. The body agents are personae charging space with points of view. The models and drawings shown here are products of historical research, narrative writing, and architectural design processes.
‘L.E.A.P.s’, or Leaky Embodiment Alter-ego Personas consider the body as a type of architecture itself; these three-dimensional paintings and portraits are provocations, presenting tragicomic and monstrous subjectivities. They are figures inscribed with layers reflecting the circumstances of their making, incorporating autobiography and the place and process integral to their creation.
The L.E.A.P Studiolo project is an ongoing series of design drawings where the alien figures are generators of architecture.