Alessandro Bava
with Luis Ortega Govela and Octave Perrault as åyr
Alessandro Bava is an architect and art gallerist based in Milan, Italy, where he runs ‘BB’ a collaborative spatial practice with architect and PhD Fabrizio Ballabio and zaza’, a contemporary art gallery showing international and italian emerging artists with a focus on queer practices.
He graduated at the Architectural Association in London with Pier Vittorio Aureli and has worked for Vito Acconci in New York. Bava practiced as an artist with the collective åyr he co-founded in 2014, making installations and exhibitions in various institutions in Europe and the US, reflecting on the radical changes brought about by the 'sharing economy' to the domestic space.
After dissolving the collective in 2018 he returned to practicing and researching architecture with a focus on installations, exhibition design and curation, interiors and urban design, while publishing his research on the politics, poetics and technologies defining contemporary space in international magazines such as e-flux and Mousse.
He has been teaching at the Bartlett School of Architecture from 2019 to 2021, with a design studio focusing on digital design, automation, and robotic fabrication. Currently he teaches at NABA in Milan a masters course on interior design.
Bava is also the founder of the ecology magazine ECOCORE which began in 2010 and has received the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Serpentine Grant for emerging talent, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts Grants and the MAK Scholarship for art and architecture in Los Angeles.
EDUCATION
Politecnico di Milano, Architectural Association School of Architecture
Milan, Italy
JURY
Andreas Fogarasi
Gabu Heindl
Catrin Lorch
Beatrix Ruf
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein
FINAL PROJECT
