Riccardo Rizzetto is an Italian architect, artist, and curator based in London and working between Italy and the United Kingdom. Trained as an architect, his post-disciplinary practice operates across installation, writing, and collective research, investigating the frictions between physical and conceptual territories and exploring how spatial and material gestures can articulate ecological, cultural, and political transformations.

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Educated in Architecture at IUAV University of Venice and later at the Royal College of Art in London, he recently completed an MA in Research Architecture at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, where he also worked as a Research Assistant at Forensic Architecture on Cartography of Genocide and The Architecture of Genocidal Starvation.

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Operating between theory and practice, research and production, Rizzetto’s work focuses on the ability of seemingly marginal elements to reveal broader systemic dynamics. His current research examines how specific crops and cultures can become critical tools for interrogating the landscape, transforming themselves into territorial sensors that foster situated and embodied understandings of space.

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Recent exhibitions include Eroded Ecologies (Reverberations, Goldsmiths, London, 2025), BRINT (Villa Angaran San Giuseppe, Bassano del Grappa, 2025), and The Menu (LAS Gallery, London, 2025). His upcoming solo project In Medio Lagunae (Venice, 2025) further develops his long-term research into the lagoon’s residual ecologies.

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His writing and editorial projects include the essay Canals of Resistance published in Folly 02 (Architectural Association, London, 2025) and contributions to Echoes (Goldsmiths, University of London, 2025).

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He is co-founder of Communal Matters, a research platform exploring human and more-than-human communities through spatial and material practices.

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Rizzetto has presented his work and research in talks and public programs including the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 (Gens Public Programme, curated by Carlo Ratti), Milan Arch Week 2025, a listening session on Montez Press Radio (New York/London, 2025), and various symposia and workshops in collaboration with IUAV Venice, Goldsmiths, and the Politecnico di Milano, among others.