Martino Pedrozzi, professor In 2003, Martino Pedrozzi founded and became the head of WISH, Workshop on International Social Housing, a design course of the Academy of Architecture of USI created with a view to exploring the topic of social housing and availing of strong international academic partnerships. Since 2016, he has flanked this work centred on often distant urban, social and economic realities with an activity in teaching, investigation and outreach on regional scale issues, collected under the name Studio Territorio Ticino. In 2021, he was appointed titular professor at USI. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Teatro dell’architettura Mendrisio and is the proprietor of an architecture practice. He published: “Il lido di Ascona di Livio Vacchini, Una teoria del giunto” (Casagrande, Bellinzona, 2017); “Casualità e disegno, Edilizia residenziale e spazio pubblico a Lugano” (Casagrande, Bellinzona, 2020); “Mini Cigarillos, Due mesi nello studio di Oscar Niemeyer” (Letteraventidue, Siracusa, 2020), also published in Portuguese (Editora Romano Guerra, São Paulo, 2022) and in English (Lars Müller Publishers, Zurich, 2025); “Perpetuating Architecture, Martino Pedrozzi’s Interventions on the Rural Heritage in Valle di Blenio and in Val Malvaglia 1994–2017” (Park Books, Zurigo, 2020); “15 edizioni di WISH, 2003–2017” (Mendrisio Academy Press, Mendrisio, 2020); an online collection of readings: www.primavera2020.ch.
Vincenzo Tuccillo, assistant Vincenzo Tuccillo is an architect who graduated from Bari Polytechnic in 2012. He was an academic assistant of Francisco Mangado at Milan Polytechnic and of Giacomo Guidotti, Martino Pedrozzi and Elisa Valero at the Academy of Architecture of USI. He has worked for Stefano Moor in Lugano. In 2018, he opened his own architecture practice in Como which, in 2019, won first prize in a competition to convert the former Consorzio Agrario in Bergamo.
Eugenio Thiella, assistant Eugenio Thiella (1995) is an architect who graduated from the USI Academy of Architecture in 2021. He has gained experience in international studios such as David Chipperfield, E2A, and Muck Petzet+. Since 2023, he has been an assistant at Martino Pedrozzi's studio at the Academy and, at the same time, holds the position of project manager at Kollektiv Zebra in Zurich. In his free time, he devotes himself to product design, self-producing prototypes that have already been presented in international galleries and fairs in Milan, Zurich, Brussels, and Ghent.
Jonathan Bello, assistant Jonathan Bello (1997), architect, graduated in 2024 from the USI Academy of Architecture under the guidance of Martino Pedrozzi. He obtained his Bachelor's degree from HEPIA in Geneva in 2020 with Stefano Moor. He gained experience in competitions, architectural design, and feasibility studies while working at the CollinFontaine studio. He currently works at the apaar studio in Geneva and is an assistant in Martino Pedrozzi's design studio at the Academy.
Past assistants Riccardo Amarri, Matthew Bailey, Elettra Carnelli, Lukas Hüsser, Valentina Merz, Andréanne Pochon, Andrea Salvatore, Francesco Tencalla, Meteusz Zaluska