Azzurra Muzzonigro

Stefano Boeri Architetti
Politecnico di Milano

Azzurra Muzzonigro is an Architect, PhD and Adjunct Professor of Architectural Design at Politecnico di Milano. She is also senior architect in Studio Stefano Boeri. She graduated in 2009 from the Faculty of Architecture of the Università degli Studi Roma Tre. In September 2011 she has completed the MSc in Building and Urban Design in Development at the Development Planning Unit (The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London) with “The dissertation Dwell the Threshold: an opportunity of encounter among differences”, supervised by the Professor Camillo Boano. In June 2015, she obtained the PhD in Urban Studies with the thesis “Dwell the Threshold, spaces and practices for a plural city”, at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre, where she is also member of LAC (Laboratorio Arti Civiche), a research platform investigating the relationship between informal spatial practices and urban transformations. She is also currently working as research coordinator at Stefano Boeri Architetti. Opposite to Sustainability, that is strongly focused on limiting the anthropic effects on the living planet, Biodiversity, by encouraging the re-colonization of animal species of the urban environment, looks at re-balancing the relations between complexity and identity in any living species.