Andrea Graziano

Architect & Computational Designer

Short Bio

Andrea Graziano is an architect and computational designer, member, and co-founder of Co-de-iT - Computational Design Italy, currently engaged in teaching international workshops about computational design, digital tools, digital and robotic fabrication in architectural design, as well as consultancy for industry and research institutes.

Andrea is co-founder of FabLab Torino and co-founder of digifabTURINg, a research cluster focused on digital fabrication, computation, robotics, and material research applied in the field of architecture, design & art.

A ‘digital explorer’ and ‘knowmad’ aiming to research, curate, and envision the rapid evolution of science, technology, and art, their possible convergence, and tooling into design and architecture.

Education

• Space Architecture & Design course - Swiss Institute for Disruptive Innovation, Online course (2022)

• Programming robots – SMART5-C5G workshop - COMAU robotics, IT (2015)

• Architettura digitale workshop taught by MARCOS NOVAK - INARCH, Rome, IT (2004)

• Master Degree in Architecture - Politecnico di Torino, IT (1990 - 2000)

• Liceo Scientifico Istituto Maria Immacolata - Pinerolo, IT (1985-1990)

Professional Experience

• DRIVEN by VOLUMES project - curator and computational design expert (2019 - 2021)

• digifabTURINg Lab - Co-founder and coordinator (2015 - 2020)

• FabLab Turin - Co-founder and member (2012)

• Co-de-iT - Co-founder and computational designer (2009 – current)

• Architect - individual practice (2000 – current)

Academic Teaching

• IaaC - Barcelona
  • Master in Robotic Architecture and Construction - MRAC - thesis tutor (2024/25), teacher (2022, 2023)
  • MAA - Master in Advanced Architecture - thesis tutor (2020/21), teacher (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2026)

• TALM Le Mans - Computational Design Workshop - teacher (2019 - current)

• Centrale Supelec - Paris - ‘Introduction to Digital Twin’ course - teacher (2019 - 2023)

• École des Ponts ParisTech - Paris - Master ‘Design by Data’ - teacher (2016 - 2021)

• Die Angewandte - Wien - Atlas of Sensations - Urban Strategies Summer School - teacher (2012)

Workshops Teaching

Computational design & digital/robotic fabrication workshops:  Dubai, Doha, Barcelona, Moscow, Paris, Innsbruck, Vienna, Bratislava, Bucharest, Muscat, Beirut, Eindhoven, Denver, Toronto, Buenos Aires, Grenoble, Kansas City, Bozeman, Rome, Turin, Bologna, Naples, Venice, Siracusa, Catania, Milan, Genoa, Udine, Lecce, Altamura, Cava Dei Tirreni (among others) (2009 - current)

Invited lecturer/speaker: RESE ARCH MeetUp 2018, STRAND conference - Belgrade, SOURCE 2015 – Florence, Shape of Logic – Wroclaw, MIGZ festival – Moscow, IaaC - Barcelona, FADU Buenos Aires, TU Innsbruck, Glimps - Gent, École des Ponts ParisTech - Paris, Digital Architecture Symposium - Wien, Domus Academy - Milan (among others) (2009 - current)

Selected Works

• Woven Cells - woven artpiece, part of Weaveology research project developed with Maude Guirault. It was part of the Nexus exhibition in 2025 at the Ateliers Vauban Besançon.

• BIO EX-MACHINA research project - the project, developed in collaboration with Officina Corpuscoli, was included in the exhibition La Fabrique du Vivant - «Mutations / Créations 3» at Centre Pompidou in Paris (2019).

• inFORMed clay matter - the artworks developed during the AARM project at digifabTURINg were part of the “Creative Robotics Exhibition” at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz (2018). 

• A.A.R.M. - Algorithm Art Robot Material exhibition - AARM shows the final results of a 2-year funded project at digifabTURINg that, as multi-disciplinary research, combined areas such as computational design, digital manufacturing, robotics and material investigation, addressing the creative and artistic opportunities enabled by robotic additive manufacturing technologies (2017).

• Aemotion AC unit for Haier - 3D-printed dynamic AC Unit shell - with NYXO, Alessio Erioli, Tommaso Casucci, Alberto Casarotto, Mirco Bianchini (2015)

• Cocoon Evo pavilion - developed with Amleto Picerno Ceraso (Medaarch) in collaboration with Tekla company – exhibited at Maker Faire Rome 2013 (2013)

• Convoluted Inferences installation for MIGZ festival in Moscow - designed with Alessio Erioli (2011) - exhibited at MIGZ festival in Moscow (2011)

• Corian© 3D Math series interior wall panels - designed with Alessio Erioli and Corrado Tibaldi (best product award at Batimat 2009).

Selected Publications

• Optimization of trajectory processing algorithms to print 3D circuit boards using piezo inkjet and 6-axis robots - D. Beneventi, A. Graziano, G. Furia, L. Charpin, M. Jean-Louis - Journal of Manufacturing Processes Vol. 101 (2023)

• Use of a 6-axis robot and ink piezo-jetting to print conductive paths on 3D objects - G. Furia, F. Tricot, D. Chaussy, P. Marin, A. Graziano, D. Beneventi - CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology,  (2021)

• BioLogic – Living Structures and Swarm Bodies - M. Montalti, A. Erioli, A. Graziano, T. Casucci, M. Daneluzzo, S. Bäumel, M. Moretti, P. van Boheemen - Slime Mould in Arts and Architecture (2019)

• From Shaping Matter to Informing Matter: Computation as design medium - A. Graziano, A. Erioli - Unconventional Computing: Design Methods for Adaptive Architecture curated by R. Armstrong, S. Ferracina, (2013)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Expert and consultant about computational design, computational tools, digital fabrication, and robotics in architecture & design.

LANGUAGES

Italian: mother tongue English: written and spoken – intermediate level

INTERESTS

Science, biology, synthetic biology, neuroscience, 3D printing, human enhancement technology.