Marco Brizzi is architecture critic and curator. He graduated from the Università degli Studi di Firenze, the city where he lives, and holds a PhD in Architecture.
He teaches Architectural Design to CalPoly San Luis Obispo and Pomona students in Florence (since 2000), Video, Media, and Architecture and Theories of Architecture at Kent State University Florence (since 2009). He has taught, among others, at Università La Sapienza in Rome, at Università degli Studi di Firenze, at Università degli Studi di Ferrara, at the Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino, at NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) in Milan and at IN/ARCH Istituto Nazionale di Architettura in Rome.
He is a founder of Image www.imageforculture.com, a company dedicated to promoting a better understanding of media issues in architecture since 2000. He established and directed Beyond Media, an architecture festival that took place in Florence from 1997 to 2009 and focused on videos made by architects in the context of a broader debate on architecture and media relations. He has been for 16 years director of arch’it www.architettura.it, online architectural magazine founded in 1995: the first and one of the most widely read Italian digital magazines on architecture. Among his other editorial activities, Marco has been editor in chief of FFF www.firenzefastforward.it, magazine devoted to design visions for the city of Florence. In 2015, his intention to share a wide collection of architecture videos and his personal experience on this specific kind of documents brought him to create the archive/magazine The Architecture Player www.architectureplayer.com. He co-directs The Architecture Curator www.thearchitecturecurator.com, supporting the creative development of emerging and established architecture practices.
Marco Brizzi received prestigious acknowledgements. He has been appointed as a juror in competition and prize juries, in Italy and abroad. He is advisor for the Mies van der Rohe Award. As director of arch’it he was finalist for the Golden Medal to architectural criticism awarded by the Triennale di Milano.