Alessandro Cugola is an Italian architect based in Brussels. His practice operates at the intersection of art, architecture, and performance—both independently and through Every Island, the multidisciplinary collective he co-founded in 2020.

With Every Island, he considers space as a malleable infrastructure which can be manipulated to trigger shifts in roles and meanings—challenging sedimented patterns in cities and language, and turning architecture from immanent and system-bound, into a performative and unstable entity.

At the core of his work lies the dynamic between body and space, and how architecture scripts behavior. His current research targets the protocols of functionality, purity, and control and seeks to hijack them through a parasitic design strategy grounded in flesh: porous, contaminated, and co-constituted.

This approach reclaims inherited buildings, dismantling their values of productivity into spaces for friction and pleasure. Their tectonics are reworked—scavenged,…