ABOUT
Sabrina Morreale and Lorenzo Perri are architects, educators and founding partners of Lemonot – a duo for spatial and relational practices, architecture and performative arts. We graduated together at the Architectural Association and we’re now based between London and Italy.
Our projects re-invent the relationship between urban fabric and human rituals through a wide range of media: pavilions, exhibitions, short films and designed performances. We relentlessly seek new forms of togetherness, with a contextual yet transterritorial approach that aims to detect, celebrate and trigger the spontaneous theatre of everyday life.
We experiment with the language of artistic strategies in public space, empowering alternative narratives and unexpected interactions – to initiate unconventional acts of place-making. We explore how architects can contribute to a peculiar reinterpretation of the city, defining novel 1:1 experiences through short and long-term occupational strategies. Dealing with multiple stakeholders at the same time, we often intervene as both facilitators and designers – constructing supporting spatial structures to make things happen.
Our constant engagement in academia is a crucial part of Lemonot. In 2018-19, we taught as Adjunct Professors at INDA in Bangkok and we’ve been Programme Heads of the AA Visiting School El Alto (Bolivia). Lorenzo taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (dieAngewandte) in Architectural Studio 1 from 2020 to 2023, while Sabrina is currently Studio Master in the Foundation Course at the AA in London. Together, we now lead the Architectural Design Studio 7: Convivial-ism at the Royal College of Art in London.
We collaborate with several cultural institution – including Arquine, La Biennale di Venezia, DPR Barcelona, LINA European Architecture Platform, S AM Basel, Architecture at the Edge (West Ireland) – and our projects have been exhibited and awarded internationally: among the others, at the Young Talent Architecture Award 2016, at the ATT19 Gallery in Bangkok, at the RIBA, at Vienna Design Week, at Bangkok Design Week, at Milan Design Week, at Archifest Singapore 2019, at Mextropoli 2021 in Mexico City, at FAR-Architecture Festival of Rome 2022 and at CAFx Copenhagen Architecture Film Festival 2023.
Furthermore, Lemonot is one of the 9 selected architectural practices for the Padiglione Italia – curated by Fosbury Architecture – of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023, and Sabrina has been appointed as the 2024 Enel Foundation Italian Fellow in Architecture at the American Academy in Rome.
“Spaziale” – Padiglione Italia, Venice Architecture Biennale, 2023
ACADEMICS
2023/ongoing - Lemonot - Tutors @Royal College of Art in ADS7: the fifth C
2020/ongoing - S. Morreale - Studio Master @Architectural Association in Foundation Course
2018/ongoing L. Perri - Visiting Tutor @Architectural Association in Experimental 9
2020/2022 - S. Morreale - Tutor @School of the Built Environment - University of Reading in Year 3
2020/2023 - L. Perri - Tutor @dieAngewandte in Studio 1 Diaz Moreno Garcia Grinda
2017/2019 - L. Perri, S. Morreale - Programme Heads of AA Visiting School El Alto
2018/2020 - Lemonot - Tutors INDA
PUBLICATIONS
2024, JUNE - Perri L., Show, don’t tell! [ITA] - Il mestiere dell’architetto ISSN 2974-7074, MY/A Rivista dell’Ordine degli Architetti PCC della Provincia di Prato - n.9
2024, JANUARY - Morreale S., Verso un’architettura nostra [ITA] - L’architettura è donna ISSN 2974-7074, for MY/A Rivista dell’Ordine degli Architetti PCC della Provincia di Prato - n.8
2023, OCTOBER - Perri L., Vulnerable Equilibrium, X-rays [ENG] - contribution to A Glossary of possible urban futures, by Studio Diaz Moreno Garcia Grinda, IoA - dieAngewandte University of Applied Arts Vienna
2023, JANUARY - Perri L., Trans - Azioni [ITA] -I Committenti dell’Architettura ISSN 2974-7074, for MY/A Rivista dell’Ordine degli Architetti PCC della Provincia di Prato - n.7
2023, JUNE - Morreale S., Perri L., Other than istelf [ENG] - curatorship for Architectural Book Fair - , DPR Barcelona
2023, MAY - Flore R, Morreale S., Perri L., Trasformazioni possibili [ITA/ENG] - contribution n.6 (out of 9) to “Spaziale. Everyone belongs to everyone else” , 18th Venice Architecture Biennal, Padiglione Italia official catalogue (Humboldt). ISBN 9791280336118
2023, FEBRUARY - Morreale S., Perri L., Interview x Lemonot profile [ENG] - for NewGenerations, New Generations
2023, JANUARY - Benelli A., Morreale S., Perri L., Oasi dei Golosi: l’installazioni site-specific di Lemonot [ITA/ENG]- project published on Area, AREA Magazine
2023, JANUARY - Perri L., Corpo a corpo [ITA]- for Architettura e Politica. ISSN 2974-7074, for MY/A Rivista dell’Ordine degli Architetti PCC della Provincia di Prato - n.6
2022, DECEMBER - Morreale S., Perri L., Carnival Table [ITA] - for Vuoto Magazine n.4: Around Tables. ISBN 9788894576931, Vuoto_Around Tables magazine (by Orizzontale + Atto)
2022, NOVEMBER - Morreale S., Perri L., Monumentally Automatic [ENG] , for Logistics: Monumental Wastelands Magazine Issue 2. ISSN 2792-7458
2022, JUNE - Morreale S., Perri L., Paifang n.0 [ITA], for MY/A Rivista dell’Ordine degli Architetti PCC della Provincia di Prato - n.5 Innesti.
2022, MARCH - Morreale S., Perri L., Favole Imbandite [ITA] - for Playgrounding by Domitilla Dardi , Corraini Edizioni. ISBN 9791254930014
2021, NOVEMBER - Morreale S., Perri L., Palapa Gastronómica | Pabellón MEXTRÓPOLI 2020 [ENG/SPA] , for Arquine Magazine
2021, NOVEMBER - Fulcher M., Morreale S., Perri L., , Gastronomic Palapa [ENG] , for Architect’s Journal
2021, SEPTEMBER - Morreale S., Perri L., Spagnolello R., Tra Architettura e Performance: lo strano caso di Lemonot [ITA/ENG] , for Elle Decor
2021, SEPTEMBER - Morreale S., Perri L., Gran Poder: le geometrie della festa, Vuoto_Festa magazine (by Orizzontale + Atto)
2021, SEPTEMBER - Del Bono A., Duina R., Morganti A., Morreale S., Perri L., PratoTown, IoA - dieAngewandte (University of Applied Arts of Vienna) - forA on the Urban
2020, OCTOBER - Morreale S., Perri L., U miegghjiu cumpani è u pitittu., Glocal Tools - La Rivoluzione delle Seppie
2020, OCTOBER - Morreale S., Perri L., 0 EMPTY, TAB Zine
2020, OCTOBER - Morreale S., Perri L., In search of Theatrical Halls, Architectuul
2020, SEPTEMBER - Morreale S., Perri L., Popular Booths, Typology of Intimacy - Emotional Catalogue (Veiga F.M.)
2020, MAY - Morreale S., Perri L., U' Circu + A' Vara di Randazzo, WPAC, Circolo del Design di Torino
2019, MARCH - Morreale S., Architect’s Wanspeed, Osso Magazine
2018, NOVEMBER - Morreale S., Perri L., When Venturi met a Bolivian alchemist, Cartha Magazine
2018, MARCH - Morreale S., Jumpa M., Cultural Assembling, AA Conversation
2018, MARCH - Morreale S., Perri L., Reimagining famous architectural domes in cake form, Mold Magazine
2018, DECEMBER - Morreale S., Perri L, Long Story Short, KooZA/rch
2018, SEPTEMBER - Morreale S., Perri L., Danisinni on stage, for xRivista
2016, NOVEMBER - Morreale S., Reliquiary, illustrations for OMMX & J.T.Foster, exhibited at Frac Centre (Orlèans) and Campo (Rome)
2016, NOVEMBER - Perri L., Brewing Democracy, YTAA + Apsaidal
2016, SEPTEMBER - Perri L., Brewing Democracy, AA Conversations + Architect's Journal
2016, SEPTEMBER - Morreale S., A pinball machine that contains an architectural landscape, Designboom
2016, SEPTEMBER - Morreale S., Massaro V., Designing through Archaeological Tools, University of Florence and MOLA Archive in London
WORKSHOPS
2024, OCTOBER - Architecture at the Edge - “Islands”, focusing on film-making as a medium to investigate the role and impact of architecture in our lives and the world we live in, demonstrating how design enhances the quality of life, while addressing important issues of society through responsible architecture. - Galway, Ireland.
2024, JULY - RCA Architecture Summer School - an intense and immersive workshop offering a challenging and engaging programme of design studio experience, visits, expert talks and portfolio making- London, UK.
2024, JANUARY - HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU) - “Assemblages”, seminar within the course “Critical Landscapes, Botanica Urbana Observatorium” about drawing techniques to construct alternative forms of cartography - Hamburg, Germany.
2024, JANUARY - University of Navarra - “Corpuyendo / Bodybuilding”, international seminar and workshop to design and build performative artefacts, combining human bodies, found objects and architectural components - Pamplona, Spain.
2023, OCTOBER - Architecture at the Edge - “RE-Mapping publicness”, focusing on film-making and enviromentally conscious , socially inclusive design, architecture and urban planning - Galway, Ireland.
2023, JULY - S A M Basel - “Filming the city” - exploring the relationships between the urban fabric, the river and the citizens - Basel, Switzerland.
2023, JANUARY - Copnhagen Architecture Festival + Barleti University - “Leave No One Behind”, documenting unconventional forms of inclusion in public space - Tirana, Albania.
2022, FEBRUARY - IDW Week - “The confessional booth: renewing spatial contracts of Luchtbal”, using filming and story-telling tecniques to reveal the architectural layers of a multiethnic neighborhood - University of Antwerp, Belgium
2022, JUNE - Festival dell’Architettura di Roma - “The City and the Night”, mapping spontaneous forms of inhabitation within a formerly industrial area - Roma Ostiense, Italy
2021, JULY - AA Summer School, Tutor Unit6 - “Table of Contents” investigating physical and digital table-typologies, Venice (Cyprus pavilion), Italy.
2019, SEPTEMBER - San Niccolò Workshop Series - “Play”, investigating playfulness as a cultural construct and its implications on architecture, Prato, Italy.
2019, AUGUST - AA Visiting School El Alto - “Portable Cholets”, staging a surreal performance inside a cholet designed by Freddy Mamani Silvestre, La Paz, Bolivia.
2019, JUNE - INDA Design and Build - “The Chinatown Effect”, researching about the trans-territorial features of Chinatown(s) as cultural typological enclave(s), Bangkok, Thailand.
2018, JULY - AA Summer School, Tutor Unit4 - “Antropotypes”, creating masks and a video performance inspired by London’s markets, London, UK.
2018, JUNE - INDA Design and Build - “Street Food Funeral”, researching about the rise and the speculative fall of street food culture, Bangkok, Thailand.
2018, JANUARY - AA Visiting School El Alto - “Cultural Assembling”, investigating the symbolism of the Andean culture through a collective mixed-media artifact, La Paz, Bolivia.
2017, JULY - AA Summer School, Tutor Unit3 - “C.R.A.P” experimenting with the technique of Kitbashing, assembling fragments together, London, UK.
2016, JULY - AA Summer School, Tutor Unit2 - “Two seconds city”, turning the use of the GIF from a medium of entertainment to an architectural tool, London, UK.
2016, NOVEMBER - Istituto Marangoni, Lecturer and workshop leader - using Architectural methodology to create fashion artifacts., London, UK.
AWARDS
2024, JUNE - Lemonot with Rain Wu and Xavier Madden, Second Prize with “MEAT-ings” - “PAT: Premio Architettura Toscana”, Category: Opera Prima , Firenze, Italy
2023, MARCH - Morreale S., 2024 Enel Foundation Italian Fellow in Architecture at the American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2022, OCTOBER - Morreale S., Perri L. with Del Bono A., Duina R., Morganti A., LINA fellows with “Pratotown” - LINA Community - European Architecture Platforms , Ljubljana,Slovenia
2022, OCTOBER - Morreale S., Perri L. with Wu R., Madden X., LFA Co-Design Equity in the Public Realm competition, Finalist with “FridgHero”, London, UK
2021, JUNE - Morreale S., Perri L. with Dolfi G., Tinti C., SpaziSospesi Honorable Mention with “Il Granataio”, Firenze, Italy
2021, APRIL - Morreale S., Perri L. with OfficeShopHouse, CONCENTRICO festival, shortlisted with "SERMIENTO", Logroño, Spain
2021, FEBRUARY - Morreale S., Perri L., COUNTLESS CITIES Biennial Pavilion Grant, First Prize with “An Ideal Home no. VII: Lido Favara”, Favara, Italy
2020, FEBRUARY - Morreale S., Perri L., MEXTROPOLI Pavilion International Competition, Firts Prize with “Gastronomic Palapa, Mexico City, Mexico
2017, OCTOBER - Perri L. with ECOL, Vienna Design Week Honorable mention for “Drawing Public Space”, Vienna, Austria
2017, OCTOBER - Morreale S., Perri L., selected finalist of Experiencing Food, Designing Dialogues with the project “Edible Archetypes”, Lisbon, Portugal
2017, JUNE - Morreale S., Selected finalist of PREMIO COMBAT PRIZE 2017, Drawings exhibited at Museo Fattori, Livorno, Italy
2017, MARCH - Perri L. with ECOL, Public Obelisk architectural competition, Third Prize, Cava de’ Tirreni, Italy
2016, OCTOBER - Perri L., YTTA, Best architectural thesis in Europe, Finalist project, Barcelona, Spain
2016, SEPTEMBER - Perri L. with ECOL and ELEMENTAL, ”PPPP” International Competition, Third Prize, Prato, Italy
2016, JUNE - Morreale S., AA Prize, Architectural Association, London, Uk
2016, JUNE - Perri L., AA Honours, Architectural Association, London, Uk
2014, APRIL - Perri L. with MDU Architetti, World of El Lissitzky competition, First Prize, Novosibirsk, Russia
2024, JUNE - Lecture Lecture about Lemonot selected projects and mothodologies within “Laboratorio di osservazoni e interazioni paesaggistiche” , Università Roma Tre- Rome, Italy
2024, MAY - Lecture within “AA Advanced Methods Conference: Translations”, Architectural Association- London, UK.
2024, MAY - Lecture within “Invisible Actants: Undoing, Remaking and Building”, AHRA PHD Symposiums, Architectural Association- London, UK.
2024, MAY - Lecture “Designing Narratives - Shaping Relationships”, IED Special Sessions- Rome, Italy
2024, APRIL - Lecture about forms of conviviality and care with Anna Puijaner and Ethel Baraona Pohl , Miart 2024- Milan, Italy
2024, FEBRUARY - Lecture about Lemonot selected projects within “Blooming from the Ruins” - Botanica Urbana Festival , Hamburg, Germany
2023, NOVEMBER - Lecture about Lemonot selected projects RCA ADS7 students’ work within “Film & Architecture” Festival D-ARCH , ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
2023, SEPTEMBER - Lecture about Lemonot selected projects within “Architecture at the Edge Festival”, Galway, Ireland
2023, JULY - Lemonot selected projects within “Possibility of an Island” AAVS, Venezia, Italy
2023, JULY - Lemonot selected projects within “WAVE” IUAV Architecture Workshop , Venezia, Italy
2023, JULY - Lecture “Designing Narratives - Shaping Relationships” in S AM Basel , Basel, Switzerland
2023, JULY - Lecture about Lemonot “Trasformazioni Possibili 2023” within AA Summer School , London, UK
2023, JUNE - Lecture about Lemonot selected projects within “Open!” , Siracusa, Italy
2023, MAY - Walkscape Speaker about “Trasformazioni Possibili - Venice Biennale 2023” within BioGround Maxxi , Venezia, Italy
2023, APRIL - Lecture “Dialogues: the design process between design and practice” , Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
2023, MARCH - Lecturer “Designing Narratives - Shaping Relationships” , terzo Paesaggio, Milan, Italy
2023, MARCH - Lecture about Lemonot selected projects in “Architectural Design Studio 1”, IoA dieangewandte - Vienna, Austria
2023, FEBRUARY - Lecture about Lemonot selected projects, for Hawkins/Brown Public Programme - London, UK
2023, FEBRUARY - Designing | Narratives Shaping | Relationships, Portsmouth University of Architecture, UK
2023, FEBRUARY - Lecture within “Leave No one behind x Film Festival Copenhagen”, University of Barleti - Tirana, Albania
2022, DECEMBER - , TU Wien, Austria
2022, SEPTEMBER - , Mařena 2022, FA VUT, Brno, Czech Republic
2022, JUNE - In between architecture & performative arts, Festival of Architecture, Rome, Italy
2022, JUNE - , Cambridge school of visual and performing arts, Cambridge, UK
2022, FEBRUARY - , Syracuse University, Florence, Italy
2021, JULY - On tables, Demanio Marittimo KM-278, Marzocca, Italy
2021, JUNE - Neo Vernacular, M-Arch TU Berlin, Germany
2021, MAY - Contemporary place-making, Poliferie, Bari, Italy
2021, NOVEMBER - Spaces - Places: ingredients to build a project, IED, Florence, Italy
2021, SEPTEMBER - , Scali Urbani x Resilient Communities, Biennale 2021
2021, SEPTEMBER - Gastronomic Palapa x Mextropoli 2021, Anahuac University, Mexico City, Mexico
2021, SEPTEMBER - , Metropolitan Workshop, London, UK
Sabrina Morreale, AA Dipl
Lorenzo Perri, AA Dipl (Hons)
London, Vienna, Stockholm, La Paz and Italy
