Roberto Bottazzi is an architect, researcher, and educator based in London. He studied in Italy and Canada before moving to London. He is currently Programme Director of the Master in Urban Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL). He is the author of Digital Architecture beyond Computers: Fragments of a Cultural History of Computational Design (Bloomsbury, 2018, 2021) and co-editor of Walking Cities: London (Camberwell Press, 2017, Routledge 2020). Bottazzi’s research analyses the impact of computational technologies on architecture and urbanism, and has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Centre Pompidou, Venice Architecture Biennale, FACT Liverpool, and Future Places Porto. His forthcoming book The Architecture of Void (Birkhäuser, 2026) will be a monographic study on the work of architects Leonardo Mosso and Laura Catagno-Mosso.

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