Alice & David Bertizzolo

Alice and David Bertizzolo are a couple of designers, artists, and architects. They work and live in Luxembourg after beginning their careers in France in 2012. David is an architect and holds a degree in timber construction and building design, while Alice studied philosophy. David Bertizzolo spent a year in a preparatory class at the École des Beaux-Arts in Digne-les-Bains and later joined the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble in 2000. For him, architecture seemed like the perfect fusion of creativity, three-dimensional organization, construction, and material work.

In 2012, Alice and David Bertizzolo began creating monumental structures for public spaces. The scale of their works interacts with the landscape, whether urban or natural. They started working in immersion within exhibition sites. Their spatial design work is centered around the notion of use, a value deeply rooted in architectural thinking. The artists engage with residents, students, and the community, organizing workshops, mediation sessions, and participatory workshops, creating genuine moments of interaction around their practice and enabling users to take ownership of the project. 

Their works are conceived with their environment and its inhabitants in mind. Their monumental and immersive installations are designed to provide each visitor with a unique experience. Since 2018, they have been creating monumental works for public spaces that harmonize with existing architectures. The precise and technical integration of their work into existing structures has become a hallmark of their practice.

Their works explore themes of optics, movement, light play, and interactivity in a spontaneous, playful expression. Although their installations are static, they give the illusion of movement and light variations. The scientific properties of living organisms are at the heart of their current research, which questions biological dynamics not as closed inert spaces but as interconnected networks of continuous exchange, creating an analogy with the urban fabric. Recent scientific advances in digital imaging have opened up a vast conceptual field for their new work. Their technical expertise combined with their creative originality allows them to find ingenious solutions to complex urban or architectural challenges.