Alberto Iacovoni
Biographical notes
The architect Alberto Iacovoni (1966) is a founding member of ma0/emmeazero (www.ma0.it), an architecture studio whose activity ranges from interactive multimedia installations to urban planning, which has earned him numerous awards in national and international competitions. He has also taken part in exhibitions that include the 10th, 11th and 12th edition of the Venice Biennale of Architecture. From 1999 to 2004 he was part of Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade (www.stalkerlab.it).
His works have been published in the most important architecture magazines and publications. He is the author of Game Zone, playground tra scenari virtuali e realtà (Birkhauser 2003; Edilstampa 2005), Playscape, published in 2010 by Libria, and - with ma0 - Borderlines (Damdi 2008), a monograph dedicated to the work of the studio.
He has taught in various universities and training institutes, such as the Istituto Nazionale di Architettura, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, NABA in Milano and Cornell in Rome.
He is currently Scientific Director at the Rome office of Istituto Europeo di Design (www.ied.it), the international Design training network, after spending three years as Director, from 2009 to 2012.