Lorenzo Perri

Lorenzo Perri is an architect, educator and co-founder of Lemonot - a duo based between London and Italy - that blends spatial and relational practices, architecture and performative arts, using them as tools to detect, celebrate and trigger the spontaneous theatre of everyday life. He graduated in architecture (BA) cum laude in Florence in 2013 and received his Diploma with Honours from the Architectural Association in 2016. Currently, he leads ADS7 at the Royal College of Art, challenging forms of conviviality as culturally and politically charged constructs. He was Programme Head of the AA Visiting School El Alto (Bolivia), he taught from 2020 to 2023 at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (dieAngewandte) in Architectural Studio 1 and from 2018 to 2019 as Adjunct Professor at INDA University Bangkok. Through Lemonot, he experiments with the language of artistic strategies in public space, empowering alternative narratives and unexpected interactions - to initiate unconventional acts of place-making. Lemonot collaborates with several cultural institution - including Arquine, La Biennale di Venezia, DPR Barcelona, LINA European Architecture Platform, S AM Basel, Architecture at the Edge (West Ireland) - and its projects have been exhibited and awarded internationally: among the others, at the Young Talent Architecture Award 2016, at the ATT19 Gallery in Bangkok, at the RIBA, at Vienna Design Week, at Bangkok Design Week, at Milan Design Week, at Mextropoli 2021 in Mexico City, at FAR-Architecture Festival of Rome 2022 and at CAFx Copenhagen Architecture Film Festival 2023. Furthermore, Lemonot is one of the 9 selected architectural practices for the Padiglione Italia - curated by Fosbury Architecture - of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023.