PETER TAGIURI

risd connection: Professor and Head, Department of Architecture; at RISD since 1987

professional practice: Peter Tagiuri currently works with two firms that provide design services for commercial, cultural and institutional projects: Open Studios in the US and Kilo in Europe and North Africa. As a designer or consultant, he has been involved in multi-unit artist housing/studios, academic buildings at Princeton, and shops, apartments and offices in London. Coming from early teaching positions at Pratt and Pennsylvania State University, Tagiuri joined RISD’s faculty in 1987 and has since traveled to institutions around the world — from Germany and Switzerland to Japan and South Korea — as a visiting critic and professor.

selected commercial commissions
Brickbottom Artist Building, Somerville, MA
Canton Hospital School, Canton, MA
Vidal Sassoon Hair Salons, Newbury Street, Boston
Brick and Timber Trust, Boston, MA
Pittman and Swaine, Attorneys, New Haven, CT
John Curtis Photographers, Boston, MA
John Van S, Photographers, Boston, MA

visiting professor/critic
2001 Ewa and Kyonggi Universities, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
2001 Hochschule für Technik, Stuttgart, Germany
2000 World Congress on Environmental Design for the New Millennium, Seoul, South Korea
1998 Architectural Association, London, England
1998 Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
1996 University of Newcastle, England
1996 Kobe Design School, Japan
1992-93 Architektur Abteilung, ETH Hoenggerberg, Zurich, Switzerland
1984-85 Yale University, New Haven, CT
1982-83 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

education
Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Masters in Architecture, 1981
Accademia di Belli Arti, Carrara, Italy, 1976-77
Dartmouth College, BA in Sculpture, 1975

honors + awards
RISD Faculty Development Grants, 2001, 1994
Harvard University Community Assistance Program research grant, 1980
Reynolds Fellowship for Study of the Arts foreign travel stipend, Dartmouth College, 1976