Simona Ferrari
“During my stay at the MAK Center, I engaged directly with the urban landscape of Los Angeles. This experience shaped my approach to urban research through fieldwork and allowed me to develop a drawing methodology that I continue to apply in my study of gardens in Los Angeles, which remains ongoing.”
Simona Ferrari is an architect working across different scales and formats. Practicing both independently and collaboratively, her work addresses architecture and the built environment through building, photography, drawing, and writing. Simona studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and the Technical University of Vienna, and received her Master’s degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. She completed a Master of Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts. Alongside her practice, between 2017-2023, Simona taught and conducted research at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich and was assistant curator of the Japan Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (2018). Previously, she worked with Atelier Bow-Wow in Tokyo, completing several international projects, including the Search Library in Muharraq, Bahrain, exhibition designs and installations at the Cultural Center of Chicago, Harvard GSD, the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the MAXXI Museum in Rome, and the Triennale di Milano. Recent works include “Landscape In-Between,” a project for the former industrial site of Acetati in Verbania, Italy, awarded in the 15th edition of the Europan architectural competition and subsequently developed as an urban plan commissioned by the municipality, involving the local community. Simona was an architect-in-residence at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles and at the Charles Moore Foundation in Santa Monica.
EDUCATION
2022, MFA
Zurich University of the Arts
Zurich, Switzerland
2014, MA
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tokyo, Japan
2010, BS
Politecnico di Milano, Architecture
Milan, Italy
JURY
Susanna Koeberle
Tereza Kotyk
Maruša Sagadin
Harald Trapp
Lilli Holleing
FINAL PROJECT
