Alice Vetrugno

Part II Architectural Assistant · Joined 2025

Architecture is a social and political act, capable of shaping narratives, amplifying voices, and challenging the hierarchies embedded in the built environment.

Alice joined our office in 2025 after completing her Master’s degree at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, graduating with Distinction. Her practice centres on the exploration of ephemerality – not only as a temporal condition, but as a conceptual framework for making architecture more responsive, inclusive, and imaginative. She is particularly interested in how impermanent structures, installations, and spatial interventions can address urgent social needs, create dialogue, and generate moments of shared meaning.

Alice’s approach to architecture is research-driven and deeply interdisciplinary. She received a commendation for the Best Drawing Award for her master’s thesis in 2024, recognising her use of drawing as both a conceptual and narrative device. In 2023, her dissertation on the temporary architecture of Italian festivals in the 1970s earned the MSA Research Project Prize and was later nominated for the RIBA Dissertation Medal.

As both a designer and thinker, Alice views architecture as a catalyst for encounter, care, and collective transformation. She is committed to exploring how impermanent, flexible structures can enrich communities, providing space for experimentation and new forms of belonging. She aims to continue working on projects that place people at the centre of design.