Alessandro Castiglioni is a Charted Architect (RIBA, ARB) working at Foster + Partners in London, UK.
Born and raised in Italy, he relocated to Melbourne to study architecture at RMIT University, where he earned two design excellence awards, received numerous shortlistings, and participated in an exchange program with SCI-Arc in Los Angeles. He completed his Master of Architecture with the Vice-Chancellor Award, presented to the top 2% of RMIT graduates in 2020.
During and after his studies, Alessandro worked at MUIR Architecture under the mentorship of Amy Muir, RMIT Lecturer and former AIA Victorian Chapter President. At MUIR, he contributed to public projects, competitions, and residential work, ranging from heritage interventions to new builds. His involvement in the design of a temporary pavilion at the National Gallery of Victoria and a landscape memorial for victims of family violence in Melbourne's Treasury Precinct sparked his deep interest in civic space and his desire to further understand the relationship between human behaviour and the built environment.
Alessandro’s commitment to multidisciplinary approaches in practice was strengthened during his time at SCI-Arc and through his thesis research, where he examined the politics of architecture through the lens of speculative design fiction. This work led him to participate in the Moving Boundaries Collaborative, an international initiative exploring how spatial design intersects with cognitive science and neuroscience. His ongoing research now focuses on the relationship between the architecture of cities and the architecture of the brain, a line of inquiry he continues to develop professionally at Foster + Partners while contributing to the design of large-scale public projects.