Darren Petrucci

Darren Petrucci is an architect and professor in The Design School at Arizona State University where he served as School Director from 2005-2012. He is the Suncor Professor in The Design School, a Senior Sustainability Scientist in the Global Institute of Sustainability, and an Affiliate Faculty in the School for The Future of Innovation in Society, and an Affiliate Faculty in the Biomimicry Center. He is the founder and principal of A-I-R [Architecture-Infrastructure-Research] Inc.  He received both a Master’s Degree in Architecture and a Master’s Degree of Architecture & Urban Design with distinction from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. 

His design thinking work focuses on leading, teaching, and consulting with collaborative transdisciplinary teams that work toward transformative design solutions to complex problems. Through his design work he focuses what he calls “Amenity Infrastructures” that facilitate the integration of pleasure, comfort, and convenience within new forms of public and private infrastructure and architecture. 

He is a recipient of the New York Architecture League’s “Emerging Voices” award, the winner of a Progressive Architecture Award, a Record House Award, and a National AIA Housing Award. His work has been exhibited and published in numerous national and international books, journals, magazines, museums, and a TEDx conference.