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Alessandro Tersigni

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Alessandro Tersigni is a cultural critic and Project Manager of Cultural Initiatives at ERA Architects. Before joining the heritage world, he spent almost a decade as an arts and culture journalist. He has written for The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Believer, The Point, The Drift, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. Alessandro has an MA in Cultural Reporting and Criticism from New York University.

Previously Research Director at the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario’s Toronto branch, where he managed the organization’s TOBuilt database of buildings, structures, and human-made landscapes, Alessandro led a city-wide survey of detached houses built between 1940 and 2000 in Toronto’s inner suburbs and helped document surviving prewar walk-up apartment buildings.

Alessandro is interested in heritage as both evidence of and impetus for diverse, specific dimensions of past and present cultures. He views buildings as vessels for cultural expression like novels and pop songs. Fascinated by the evolving relationship between the GTA’s marginal, in-between, counterintuitive places and its most celebrated landmarks, Georgian manors and suburban plazas excite him equally.

Location: Toronto
Position: Project Manager, Cultural Initiatives

Education: New York University — Master of Arts, Cultural Reporting and Criticism

Email: [email protected]

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