2025
Built
Aglientu, Italy
The project draws from traditional Sardinian houses, using stone, wood, and light as primary elements to shape space and atmosphere.The entrance extends toward the street, recalling the *carreli* and re-establishing a connection between the house and the collective realm.
A minimal intervention that emphasizes material honesty and continuity with local building practices.
2026
Competition
PUBLIC ROOM investigates the relationship between domestic and public space by merging the archetypes of the bedroom and the square.
A translucent enclosure hosts domestic and urban elements, while visitors are invited to leave temporary traces through writing, drawing and everyday actions. At the end of each day, water washes the surfaces and is collected for reuse, renewing the space through a continuous cycle.
The project proposes public space as an extension of the domestic realm, where collective responsibility is built through everyday acts of use and care.
2025
Built
Rome, Italy
CREDO DI AVERTI VISTO PIANGERE
primo capitolo di Trittico
concezione, regia, movimenti e testi DANILO MAGLIO
con ELIO MUSACCHIO, RODOLFO SALUSTRI, DANIELE VALDEMARIN
scene ALESSANDRO LEONARDI
costumi sartoriali MAVRANYMA
luci CAMILLA PICCIONI
musiche TOMMASO PANDOLFI
video IGOR RENZETTI
direttrice di scena CAMILLA PICCIONI
fonico STEFANO CRIALESI
sarta di scena VALERIA FORCONI
messa in scena realizzata nell'ambito del:
DOTTORATO DI RICERCA
XL CICLO - I CICLO AFAM
TEATRO DELLA REALTÀ - ARTI PERFORMATIVE E
NUOVI MEDIA
Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio d'Amico
Teatro Stabile dell'Umbria
coordinatore e supervisore - Francesco Manetti
tutor - Brunella Giolivo
le riprese video sono di Carlo Fabiano.
2023
Research
Padua, Italy
Research project on the transformation of healthcare architecture in Italy.
Team: Alessandro Leonardi – Nicola Varesco
The project investigates the Community House as a new civic and spatial model, exploring its integration within the urban fabric and everyday life.
It examines how architecture can support care through atmosphere, spatial quality, and hybrid programs, redefining healthcare spaces as places of proximity and well-being.
- Best thesis award 2023 Premio Gregotti
- Greenfelove award 2023
2025
Competition, Third prize
Sassuolo, Italy
Laboratorio di Idee Sassuolo
Team: Alessandro Leonardi – Thomas Serafini
Design competition for the redevelopment of the area facing Teatro Carani on Viale XX Settembre.
The project introduces a minimal transformative gesture, using water to redefine the space. Collected and released at specific points, it forms reflective surfaces and a central water square that mirrors the theatre façade, enhancing its presence through a subtle and scenographic effect.
2023
Competition, Finalist - II phase
Azzano X, Italy
Scuole Futura
Team: Alessandro Leonardi – Flavia Vaccher
Two‑stage competition for the design of new school buildings within the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).
The project envisions the school as an open educational ecosystem, integrated with its surrounding landscape and local community. Shared indoor and outdoor spaces extend the building’s use beyond school hours, while the entrance unfolds into a “school square,” acting as a threshold between institution and city.
Flexibility lies at the core of the design: adaptable classrooms, sliding panels, and modular walls support evolving learning environments, fostering interaction, inclusivity, and collective use.
2025
Built, Finalist
Venice, Italy
Directed by Danilo Maglio, GiorgioMaria Cornelio
The stage is conceived as a transforming architectural organism, where suspended fabrics, a movable structure, and pulleys shape shifting states of compression, tension, and release. The set responds to the performers and light, turning emotional intensity into spatial change and blurring the boundary between body and space.
Alessandro Leonardi
leonardialessandro.al@gmail.com
@leonardi_practice
Alessandro Leonardi is an architect based in Italy. He graduated with honours from the IUAV University of Venice, where his thesis Community Houses received the Gregotti Award and the Grenfellove Prize.
His practice spans residential architecture, adaptive reuse and scenography, combining professional practice with academic research. Alongside his independent work, he collaborates on international architectural projects and has been a teaching assistant in architectural design at IUAV since 2024. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the IUAV University of Venice.
His work in Sardinia explores the relationship between contemporary architecture, local building traditions and the identity of the territory.
2026 – Teaching assistant, International Workshop “W.A.Ve. Balance 2026”, IUAV University of Venice
2025 – Teaching assistant, International Workshop “W.A.Ve. Labor 2025”, IUAV University of Venice
2025 – Teaching assistant, Regeneration and Conservation of Historic Buildings and Environments, IUAV University of Venice
2021 – Participation in the Venice Studio Oslo with Snøhetta
Stage and Set Design Projects
2025 – Set design for “Credo di averti visto Piangere” , Rome, Silvio D’Amico Accademy (Dir. Danilo Maglio)
2025 – Set design for “Debutto di un Grido”, finalist project, Biennale College Teatro 2025 (Dir. Danilo Maglio)
2025 – Set design for “Attentati alla vita di lei”, Teatro di Napoli. Winner of national call (Dir. Danilo Maglio)
2024 – Set design for “Le voci di dentro”, reinterpretation of Eduardo De Filippo’s play (Dir. Danilo Maglio)
Awards and Recognitions
2026 – Special Mention – Next Stop: Veneto
2025 – Third Prize – Laboratorio di Idee Sassuolo
2025 – Finalist – Biennale College Teatro 2025
2023 – Premio Gregotti 2023 – Best Thesis Award Iuav
2023 – Greeneflove Award 2023 – Iuav
2023 - Selected for VSO
2022 - Scuole Futura – Architectural Competition, finalist
Publications and Exhibitions
2025 – Exhibition design – W.A.Ve. 2025 Final Workshop Exhibition, IUAV University of Venice
2025 – Exhibition – “Laboratorio di Idee Sassuolo”, Award Ceremony and Exhibition, Sassuolo City Hall
2023 – IUAV Thesis Catalog 2023 – featured project “Community Houses”
2023 – Giorgio Danesi, Sara Di Resta (eds.), “Forte Marghera ’900”, Venice, pp. — (contribution)
2022 – Flavia Vaccher (ed.), “OCOCOLOV”, Anteferma Editions, pp. 98–107
2018 – Giovanni Maciocco, “Strutture generative e nuclei di urbanità”, Franco Angeli Editions