Dante Furioso
Visiting Assistant Professor
Biography
Dante Furioso is an architectural historian whose work examines the role of labor in the emergence of colonial cities in Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition to teaching the history and theory of architecture in Pratt’s Undergraduate Architecture B.Arch. program, he is a doctoral candidate at Princeton University. His dissertation, “Masters of the Trade: Slavery and the Construction of Nineteenth-Century Havana,” uses legal testimony to examine the contested status of Black construction labor in the Cuban capital during the expansion of the island’s plantation system.
Education
- Ph.D. History and Theory of Architecture, Princeton University, expected 2027
- M.Arch., Yale University, 2016
- B.A. (History), Wesleyan University, 2007
Publications and Projects
- “Legally Visible: Glimpses of the Enslaved Africans Who Built Havana,” Platform, September 30, 2024.
- “Conquest(s) of the Desert,” Journal of Architectural Education, 77:2, October 10, 2023.
- “Sanitary Imperialism,” e-flux Architecture, May 2022.