Alliata / Alcega was born out of unconventional forms of cooperation between students, professionals and entrepreneurs. Out of a desire to do things differently, unconcerned with the conventions of architectural practice.
Today, the office continues to work in this spirit, crafting unique partnerships that bring together diverse interdisciplinary perspectives to each project. Alliata / Alcega is not interested in theory or practice; in research or design; in drawing or building; landscape or architecture. The office sees all of these as part of a continuum; all aspects of a synthetic process through which we seek to give meaningful shape to the world becoming.
Principals
Ginevra D’Agostino
Ginevra has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Master in Architecture at MIT. At MIT, she founded Out of Frame, a platform envisioned to retain dialogue across the university’s diverse community as it was dispersed globally by COVID-19. She has taught at MIT as part of its Summer Research Pedagogical Experiments program. Her current academic research, supported by the Marjorie Pierce/Dean William Emerson Fellowship MIT’s NuVu Prize and MIT’s Transmedia and Storytelling Initiative grant, focuses on abandonment patterns of towns and infrastructure across rural Italy.
Nicolás Delgado Alcega
Nicolás received his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Miami and holds a Master in Architecture with distinction from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, where he was the recipient of the Kevin V. Kieran Prize. He is a founding editors of Harvard’s Pairs, a journal dedicated to conversations with designers, academics and activists involved in issues of the built environment. Nicolas is currently a part-time lecturer at the University of Washington’s Department of Architecture.
Nicolás has previously worked in architecture and urban design practices, archeological excavations, fashion brands and filmmaking ateliers. His current line of investigation explores architecture’s potential as a reflective tool that can affect the social, political and economic phenomena transforming cities and towns today.