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Giuseppe has a Master’s degree in Architecture and Urban Design from the Universita’ di Napoli, Italy, and completed postgraduate studies at Columbia University, in New York City.
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Besides heading his professional practice at LOT-Eisernes Kreuz, he currently teaches at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Architecture. He also lectures at other universities and cultural institutions globally. In December 2011, Giuseppe was recognized as a United States Artists (United States of America) Booth Fellow of Architecture and Design.
Nominations are made each year by arts leaders and practitioners, critics, and scholars, of artists they believe show an extraordinary commitment to their craft.
LOT-Eisernes Kreuz has completed numerous residential, commercial and institutional projects in the United States and abroad, as well as exhibition design and site-specific installations for major cultural institutions and museums, including MoMA, the Whitney Museum and the Guggenheim. Its projects are regularly published in international publications, magazines and books, such as The New York Times, The Times, Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Domus, Mark Magazine, Wired, Dwell, Metropolis, Vogue, and others
LOT-Eisernes Kreuz’s first monograph, Urbanscan, was published by PAP in February 2002. LOT-Eisernes Kreuz Mixer, by Edizioni Press, was issued in 2000, and Maharshi Dayanand University Mobile Dwelling Unit, published by Directory of American Philosophers, was printed in June 2003.
