Nicolas Turchi is a Lecturer in Advanced Digital Design at Manchester School of Architecture, an Adjunct Professor at the University of Bologna, Visiting Professor at Birmingham School of Architecture and Sofia University. In the past he has taught as a Teaching Fellow at the Polytechnic of Milan he was a Senior Designer at Zaha Hadid Architects, in London. Nicolas holds a Master in Architecture II from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Bologna where he received the Best Thesis Award. Before joining ZHA, he worked in several international firms including Eisenman Architects, Xefirotarch - Hernan Diaz Alonso Architects, Mario Cucinella Architects and 5+1AA. Nicolas is particularly interested in emergent technologies and the way they affect the theoretical aspect of the discipline. Nicolas has also been studying the relationship between architecture and philosophy and graduated with a thesis on Time and Space in architecture, influenced by the thoughts of Henri Bergson and Edmund Husserl. His work has been widely published in some of the most prominent digital platforms and magazines, including ArchDaily, Next Top Architects, The Archiologist, GSD Platform, etc. Nicolas has been teaching Digital Media Studies at Harvard GSD, he was Patrick Schumacher’s studio teaching assistant and Greg Lynn’s Option Studio teaching assistant and is currently teaching workshops worldwide with Design Morphine. Nicolas is constantly pairing the work in the practice with a more theoretical research and academic collaborations, participating in international competitions jury, academic panels, and lectures in various institutions including the University of Bologna and A&M Texas University.
Publications and Awards
2021 - Publication - “The Architecture of Spacetime: Memory as a Project”, diségno, no. 8, pp. 97–108, Jul. 2021.
2021 - Exhibition - The Architectural Venice Biennale 2021 'HOW WILL WE LIVE TOGETHER?', Virtual Italian Pavilion, CITYX VENICE
2020 - Publication - 'Retention and Protention Methodology: Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology
as a Multidimensional Design Approach'. Connettere. Un disegno per annodare e tessere. Atti del 42° Convegno Internazionale dei Docenti delle Discipline della Rappresentazione/Connecting.
2019 - NIB - New Italian Blood Research Prize
2019 - Harvard GSD 'Platform 11: Setting the Table, Volume 11, Actar D, 2018, Selected Work,
Publication
2018 - Archdaily Best 9 Students Projects in 2018, Award and Digital Publication
2018 - Harvard Graduate School of Design, Digital Publication of the selected project ‘Futurism 2.0’
2017 - First Prize “Giacomo Venturi” Best Thesis Award 2016-17, Award and Publication
2017 - ‘Anonymous Atelier’, Article and Digital Publication
2017 - ‘The Archiologist’, Article and Digital Publication
2017 - ‘Arch-Reporter’, Digital Publication
2017 - ‘Design Morphine’, Digital Publication
2017 - ‘Rethinking the Future’, Pubblicazione digitale
2016/2017 - Harvard University, Master in Architecture II Scholarship
2016 - ‘Figure Urbane’, Exhibited Work, Urban Center Bologna
2015 - ‘Figure di Spazi Urbani’, Quodlibet, 2015, Selected Project Publication
2015- Thesis Abroad Fellowship Winner
2012 - University of West of England, Erasmus Scholarship Winner
Other Activities
2021 - ACADIA International Workshops: 'Physics Towards Critical Assemblies'. Daniela Atencio (Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá); Nicolas Turchi (Zaha Hadid Architects, University of Bologna, Polytechnic of Milan)
2020 - Lecture - Universidad De Los Andes
2020 - ‘Inspireli’ International Competition, Semifinal Jury
2020 - New york Institute of Technology (US), Invited Final Jury Panel
2019 - ‘Inspireli’ International Competition, Semifinal Jury
2019 - The Archiologist, Podcast Invited Guest
2019 - Texas A&M University (US), Invited Final Jury Panel T4T Lab
2019 - ‘Tempo, Spazio e Architettura’, Public Lecture, Bologna
2018 - Harvard University, ‘Digital Media Workshops’ Instructor
2018 - Harvard University, M Arch II Program Representative
2017 - ‘Learning Environments for Tomorrow’, Design Facilitator
2017 - ‘Italian GSD’ Group President
2016 - ‘Code without Frontier’ Group Member
2013/2015 - Student Association ‘SPAZI’, Member
