Francesco Marullo is an associate professor at the UIC School of Architecture and investigates the relations between architecture, labor, and the space of production. He holds a Ph.D. in history and theory of architecture from the Delft University of Technology and the Berlage Institute. He is a founding member of the research collective The City as a Project and collaborated with the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, DOGMA, and the urban planning department of RomaTre University. His work has been featured in numerous architectural publications and international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale (2014-2016), the Oslo Triennale (2016), and the Lisbon Triennale (2019), while a selection of his writings on architecture is currently being translated and published as Arquitectura Gènerica y Trabajo Vivo (2026).
At MacDowell, he advanced a forthcoming book on the architecture and social history of Chicago’s residential hotels. As part of the same research, he wrote a short essay for The Brooklyn Rail (February 2026) on the Single Room Occupancy hotels along West Madison Street and developed the next stage of "All Magnificent and Wild," an exhibition that opened in Fall 2025 at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and continued in Spring 2026 at the MAS Context Reading Room in Chicago.
