Maria Alessandra Segantini is a registered architect at ARB, RIBA, and the Italian, Belgian, and Swiss Chamber of Architects. She has recently been awarded with the Albo d’Onore, a lifetime membership of Engineers and Architects of the San Marino Republic and won the Italian Architect of the Year Award in 2022. 

She obtained a Master’s in Architecture and Urban Design with honors in 1991 and a Master’s in Design Management in 1992, both from the University of Architecture of Venice, IUAV. 

Since 1994, Segantini has been the co-founder and creative director (with Carlo Cappai) of C+S Architects, with offices in London (UK) and Treviso (IT). Since 2018, she has led both offices.

Her innovative and inquisitive approach to design, forward-looking but sensitive, unique in its pursuit of expansion of the active role of designers in society, through new technical and material possibilities, combined with the sensitivity towards heritage and community engagement, has distinguished her as a leading architect of her generation. 

Her diverse, award-winning portfolio includes cultural, residential, education, retail, workplace, religious, and civic projects with ongoing projects throughout Europe, Africa, Russia, and the Middle East.

Maria Alessandra has been a Full Professor in architecture and urban design at UEL in London and Hasselt University in Belgium, a Professor of Practice at Syracuse University, New York, USA, a Visiting Professor at MIT, Cambridge Massachussetts, USA, Bath University, IUAV and Ferrara and she has lectured and been involved in juries worldwide. She is the author of five books on architecture. 

With C+S Architects, she has won more than 50 awards and recognitions worldwide.