Dante Furioso
Visiting Assistant Professor
Biography
Dante Furioso is an architectural historian whose work focuses on the role of labor. He is particularly interested in the relationship between different kinds of workers and professionals in contexts of colonialism, focusing on Latin America. In addition to his teaching of architectural history in the Undergraduate Architecture B.Arch. program at Pratt, he is a Ph.D. candidate in the History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University. His dissertation, “Hammer & Machete: The Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Urbanization of Havana,” examines the reciprocities between the plantation system, slavery, urbanization, and the professionalization of architecture during the final century of Spanish rule in the Caribbean’s largest island.
Education
- Ph.D. History and Theory of Architecture, Princeton University, expected 2027
- M.Arch., Yale University, 2016
- B.A. (History), Wesleyan University, 2007
Publications and Projects
- “Legally Visible: Glimpses of the Enslaved Africans Who Built Havana,” Platform, September 30, 2024.
- “Conquest(s) of the Desert,” Journal of Architectural Education, 77:2, October 10, 2023.
- “Sanitary Imperialism,” e-flux Architecture, May 2022.