Alessandro Cugola

Alessandro Cugola (°1993, IT) is an Italian architect based in Brussels. His practice operates at the intersection of art, architecture, and performance, both independently and through Every Island, the multidisciplinary collective he co-founded in 2020.

Together with Every Island, Cugola treats space as a malleable infrastructure, capable of unsettling normative habits, systems of belonging, and expectations. Their joint interventions disrupt sedimented patterns in cities and language, reframing architecture as contingent, unstable, and collectively rewritten. Works by Every Island have been presented at various institutions, including the Venice Biennale, BOZAR in Brussels, and Mudam in Luxembourg, while their research currently informs a design studio at ETH Zurich.

At the core of Cugola’s work is the dynamic interplay between body and space, and how architecture scripts behavior. His current research targets the protocols of functionality, purity, and control and seeks to hijack them through a parasitic design strategy that is porous, contaminated, and co-constituted. This approach reclaims inherited buildings and dismantles their values of productivity to create spaces for friction and pleasure. Their tectonics are reworked: scavenged, rerouted, repurposed, to test new thresholds of intimacy, constraint, and exchange.

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