Alessio De Gottardi was born in Bellinzona, Switzerland. He graduated as an architect in 2018 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich - ETHZ. During his studies he accomplished exchange programs in the University of Buenos Aires, the University of Tokyo and the National University of Singapore - Future Cities Laboratory. Co-founder of Campo Abierto, an interdisciplinary studio that investigates phenomena and processes of transformation of contemporary territories using photography and filmmaking as basis of the design process.