Francesco Garofalo

Francesco Garofalo is an Italian Landscape Architect, born in France in 1983 and graduated cum Laude in “Genoa University” in 2009. He then moved to the Netherlands where he founded Openfabric in 2011. Openfabric is a Landscape Architecture and Urban Design practice based in Rotterdam and Milan, currently engaging in various countries such as Netherlands, Italy, Russia, China, Belgium, UAE, KSA, Georgia, Albania, Colombia and Peru. Since he founded Openfabric, Francesco has led various awarded competitions and some ongoing commissions, amongst others: a proposal for the new Tahrir square in Cairo, a vision for the post-expo in Milan, exhibited at Venice Biennale in 2014, “Central Park” in Kaliningrad; he has been in charge of a number of realized projects such as “Into the Wild” in the Hague, “Gridgrounds” in Amsterdam and “Into the Forest” installations in Mantova. Francesco is currently adjunct professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at “Politecnico di Milano” and he has been recently teaching in Amsterdam and Rotterdam Academy of Architecture. He’s lecturing internationally on a continuous base, including lecturing and guest critic at MIT (Cambridge MA), Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), Metropolitan University of London, RAoB (Rotterdam, the Netherlands), Genoa University of Architecture (Genoa, Italy), KU Leuven (Belgium).