Nataly Gattegno

M.A Cambridge University, St.John's College, England. M.Arch, Princeton Univeristy, USA

Assistant Professor

Nataly Gattegno is a founding partner of Future Cities Lab [www.future-cities-lab.com], an interdisciplinary design and research collaborative that was recently awarded second prize in the 2005 Seoul Performing Arts International Competition. FCL’s work has been awarded an Unbuilt Architecture award from the Boston AIA and has been most recently published in Softspace: From a Representation of Form to a Simulation of Space, ed. by Lally & Young.

Ms.Gattegno is presently teaching design studios at the graduate and undergraduate level. Her seminar InfoLab, investigates the relationship between information and design and the opportunities of a design process inextricably linked to research. Ms.Gattegno’s professional work delves into issues of context, nature, ecology and technology in urban planning and design. She has been exploring the oportunities of design in extreme environments as a vehicle of investigating the relationship between energy and form.

Ms.Gattegno received the AIA Medal and the Certificate of Merit from Princeton University and the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize for design research. She was also awarded the Stanley Seeger Traveling Fellowship for research on the urban condition of the city of Athens, Greece.

Ms.Gattegno has been a full time faculty member of the University of Virginia since the fall of 2002. She is a MArch graduate of Princeton University and a MA graduate from Cambridge University, St.John’s College, UK. She was born in Athens, Greece and has lived and worked in a number of countries, including the UK and Italy.