Guido Incerti graduated in architecture from the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di (IUAV) in 2000, he received his PhD in Architectural Design (ICAR14) in 2010 from the PhD school of the Faculty of Architecture in Florence.
He is currently a counselor in the Bologna Order of Architects.
In the early 2000s he collaborated with Will Alsop in Rotterdam, DillerScofidio+Renfro in New York and Studio Archea in Florence among others.
In 2005 he founded nEmoGruppo Associati with offices in Florence, Milan and Abu Dhabi. Their activities lead them to win numerous national and international competitions in architecture and landscape design. Among the awards they have received is the 2011 Inarch Marche Prize for the Gamba Manifatture project and an honorable mention at the XXIII Compasso d'Oro for the “Universo Rietveld” exhibition design at MAXXI, Rome.
He also participated with DillerScofidio+Renfro in the 2008 Venice Biennale and later in the 2010 Shanghai Expo.
In 2014, he founded, bda bottega d'architetti to deal with resilient spaces and small- and medium-scale reuse and sartorial architecture to develop his professional research on waste materials and sustainability of the discipline. His achievements include some reconstruction and new architecture in the earthquake-affected areas of Emilia Romagna and the crater of central Italy, exhibited in 2018 at the Milan Triennale as part of the "Reconstructions" exhibition, the redevelopment and regeneration of some rural complexes, and various reuse projects including school interior redevelopment projects as part of the "Making School" project of the Reggio Children Foundation. Academic activity sees him in 2010 and 2011 Visiting Tutor at the Royal College of Art in London, from 2012 to 2023 he teaches at the Department of Architecture, University of Ferrara. He also collaborates with Domus Academy in Milan and IAAD in Bologna.
In 2019, he was appointed as a member of the Curatorial Team of the Italian Pavilion "Resilient Communities"-principal curator Alessandro Melis-at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, held in 2021, and in charge of the "Story of a Minute" section on resilient communities in the post-earthquake period.
His work has been published in various architectural magazines and portals such as Abitare, Domus, and Dezeen. At the same time, as a writer - free-lance critic - he writes and has written for architecture magazines such as Abitare, Area, and Domus. From 2008 to 2012 he edited "Opere," a Tuscan architectural magazine published by the Florence Architects Foundation.
He edited for Skira the monograph "DillerScofidio + Renfro,. The Ciliary Function "on the American studio designers of, among others, the High Line and "The Shed," and also for Skira, with Michela De Poli, "The Atlas of Recycled Landscapes." With Lettera Ventidue, "Transformations: stories of contemporary landscapes". Now about to come out, for D Editore, "Story of a Minute," an essay on the work executed for the 17th Architecture Biennale.