Aurélie Frolet is a French-born designer whose work and research focuses on reasserting the agency of architectural design in infrastructural scale projects. She received her Master of Architecture degree from Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning where she won the Richmond Harold Shreve Award for her thesis project. She has worked in several offices in NYC including Morris Adjmi as well as Bjarke Ingels Group.
She currently lives in Florence, Italy where she is an adjunct faculty member in the architecture program at Syracuse University in Florence. There, she leads a seminar titled “Drawing Water: Inventing Hydrological Hybrids” which asks students to examine Florence’s tumultuous relationship with water, particularly the catastrophic flooding of the Arno River that has occurred at various times throughout its history, from the high renaissance to the present day. The course focuses on the interwoven relationship between Italian architectural history and Italian innovations in hydrological design in order to speculate on new potentials for water infrastructure in Florence, a city whose future may largely depend on its relationship to water.
afrolet@syr.edu
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