Francesco Marullo, Associate Professor at the UIC School of Architecture, has been named a 2026–2027 Faculty Fellow at the UIC Institute for the Humanities.
The Faculty Fellowship program supports groundbreaking research leading to major books and articles in the humanities. During his time at the Institute, Professor Marullo will continue to develop A Project of Distance, his ongoing investigation into architecture and estrangement, which examines Chicago’s history of industrialization and labor struggle through the work of Bertolt Brecht. He will present the research at a public lecture on October 6, 2026, and at a fellows’ seminar in February 2027.
Marullo holds a PhD in History and Theory of Architecture from TU Delft and the Berlage Center. Before establishing his own practice, he worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture and DOGMA. His projects have been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Oslo Architecture Triennale, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, and the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. He has published essays in Log, Volume, San Rocco, Domus, Flat Out, OASE, gta-papers, and co-authored Tehran: Life within Walls (2018), contributed to The Contested Territory of Architectural Theory (2022), guest-edited an issue of Log (2022), and co-edited Deserts (2023), an issue of the Journal of Architectural Knowledge.
Marullo’s research has received support through a Graham Foundation Fellowship (2017), a DAAD Scholarship (2023), and a MacDowell Fellowship (2026). A selection of his writings is being translated and published in the trilogy Arquitectura Genérica y Trabajo Vivo (2024–2027).
Image credit: Ali Reza Malik. Courtesy of MacDowell