Annalisa de Curtis is an architect who integrates her professional work with teaching and writing as an organic activity involving research and reflection through design.

Her transdisciplinary approach to architecture involves other fields of knowledge: she is the designer and curator (together with the ICOM International Council of Museums, the Triennale di Milano and Museo Arte Sella) of itinerant projects dedicated to contemporaneity and heritage.

After completing her Ph.D. cum laude in Architectural and Urban Design at the Politecnico University in Milan, she co-founded the studio Morpurgo de Curtis ArchitettiAssociati, which develops its activity through design research as an organic process, extending from detail to the urban dimension. Its work covers interiors, museum and exhibition design, social housing and the re-use of historical buildings, combining disciplinary tradition and experimentalism.

She is a “High Qualification” Adjunct Professor for the Master’s courses at the following universities: Iuav in Venice, the Politecnico and Cattolica in Milan, and Roma Tre. She has also lectured and overseen the assessment of Ph.D. and Master’s students at the Polytechnic in Warsaw, Léav Paris-Saclay, Accademia di Mendrisio and KU Leuven. She became a member of the board for Italy’s National Institute of Architecture in 2021. Her projects have received international awards (the Shoah Memorial in Milan was the winner of the 2015 Gold Medal for Italian Architecture -interiors- and of the IN/ARCH Architectural National Prize 2020; Listed in the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s Census of Contemporary Architecture 2024). Her work has been published in monographic volumes, catalogues and leading trade magazines in Italy and abroad, including Abitare, Domus and the Architectural Record.

Her books include Il Muro • Simbolo, visione, costruzione, progetto (in progress), Museo è Contemporaneità (Milan 2021), Il Museo in Tempo Reale (Milan 2019), Il Museo come Laboratorio del Presente (Milan 2018), which was about a museographical project that received the medal of the President of Italy; and Figurazione (Milan 2015). The latter is a reflection on artistic practices through the work of Umberto Riva, winner of the gold medal for Italian architecture and with whom she enjoyed a long and fruitful working relationship.

In 2023, she was invited to the symposium Le Ali della Bellezza at Arte Sella. The experience gives voice to an ongoing project on accessibility in the enjoyment of works of art, museums and cultural institutions (La Bellezza della Fragilità, Triennale di Milano 2024).