Alessandro Mattoccia

Alessandro is a co-founder of 50SuperReal studio, where he focuses on applying coding to the automatisation of design and technical processes, as well as playing the role of BIM Manager and computational expert.

He is currently an adjunct professor at IE School of Architecture and Design, Co-Director at Structuralia in the Master “BIM and Smart Buildings” as well as professor in the “Programming applied to BIM” Master programe.

Alessandro spends a lot of his time in educational processes, giving lectures, workshops and corporate training programs. Previously, he has been teaching in ETSAM as part of the Masters in Advanced Infographics, and you can find his online classes on several different educational and profesional platforms. He has also been a researcher in the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, focusing on urban scale projects, and part of MargenLab team designing and building architectural prototypes based on energy modelling and sustainable strategies.

Currently he is focusing his career in pushing the boundaries of the Building Information Modelling methodology. Processes as advanced modelling, automatisation and data informed geometry are his main topics of research, mixing programming and drafting to explore the digital capabilities of architecture and design.

Alessandro graduated cum laude in 2015 from the Faculty of Engineer in Pisa with a master degree in “Building Engineering and Architecture”, presenting a project that studied the intersection between vernacular architecture and information technologies, which can be found in several publications. Trough exchange programs, he has also studied at the Technical University of Riga and the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC). In 2016 he enrolled the International Master BIM Manager from Zigurat, Global Institute of Technology.

Corporate Experience

• Co-Founder “50 (Super(Real))”. 2016.

Academic Experience

• Zigurat Global Institute of Technology. Professor. “Algorithmic Design - Dynamo”. 2016.

• University of Pisa. Professor. “Digital Autumn” - Computational Seminar. 2017.

• ETSAM, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. “Geometrical Public Playground” - BIM seminar. 2018.

• University of Pisa. Professor “Computational Design and Fabrication Summer School”. 2019.

• Co-Direction “Master in BIM and Smart Buildings”, Professor in “Coding applied to BIM”. 2019 - Present.

• IE School of Architecture and Design. Adjunct Professor. “Architectural Geometry I & II”, “Applied Mathematics in Architecture II”. 2019 - Present.

Academic Background

• Master degree in Building Engineer and Architecture. University of Pisa. 2015.

• International Master BIM Manager. 2016.