The Turner Construction Lecture: Fabrizio Barozzi of Barozzi Veiga

The Department of Architecture welcomes Fabrizio Barozzi of Barozzi Veiga for his lecture.

Fabrizio Barozzi (Rovereto, 1976) is an Italian architect. He currently lives and works in Barcelona, Spain, where he runs the Barozzi Veiga architecture studio.

He studied architecture at the University Institute of Architecture in Venice and completed his academic training at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura in Seville (1998-99) and the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette (2000-01). In 2003 he graduated with honours from the University Institute of Architecture in Venice with the lecturers Bernardo Secchi and Guillermo Vazquez Consuegra, and in the same year he began a period of work in the latter’s studio in Seville. Here he collaborated with architect Alberto Veiga, with whom he partnered in 2004 to start his own architectural practice, Barozzi Veiga.

Constant participation in public competitions with a focus on projects of a cultural, civil and educational nature characterised the studio’s initial activity and took concrete form in the first works realised: the Ribera del Duero building in Roa (Spain, 2011) and the Auditorium Infanta Elena in Águilas (Spain, 2011). From the very beginning, the studio matures a deep European root, evident in the constant work at an international level, culminating in the realisation of the Szczecin Philharmonic (Poland, 2014), an important work that will later be distinguished with the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture (2015). A period of work mainly in Switzerland followed, with the realisation of two museum buildings, the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne (Switzerland, 2019) and the Bündner Kunstmuseum in Chur (Switzerland, 2016), and two educational buildings, the Tanzhaus in Zurich (Switzerland, 2019) and the Ragenhaus Musikschule in Brunico in Südtirol (Italy, 2018). The competition activity is gradually joined by the first private commissions that lead to the construction of two artists’ studios for the Design District in London (England, 2021), the Aesop shop in Barcelona (2022), and the Dynafit Factory (Germany, 2024).

The studio currently works globally developing public and private projects in different countries such as Belgium, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, France, the United Arab Emirates, China and the United States, where it received the prestigious commission to extend and reconfigure the Art Institute of Chicago.

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