Alessandro Petti is an architect and researcher based in Bethlehem. He is the Director of DAAR, an architectural research studio based in Palestine, which combines discourse, urban intervention, education, collective learning, public meetings and legal challenges as a form of political intervention and narration. In 2010 DAAR won the Prince Claus Prize for Architecture and was shortlisted for the Chrnikov Prize. Alessandro is the chair of the Urban Studies Program and Spatial Practices Program at the Al-Quds/Bard Honors College in Abu Dis-Jerusalem. He has written on the emerging spatial order dictated by the paradigm of security and control, and on the re-use, re-inhabitation and subversion of colonial structures. He co-curated research projects on the contemporary urban condition such as Borderdevices and Stateless Nation exhibited in various biennials and museums.
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