Darren Petrucci is an architect and the Director of the School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture at Arizona State University where he also runs his applied research lab: SCAPE (Systems Components Architectural Products + Environments). 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 and research focuses on what he calls “Amenity Infrastructure” which develops new public/private urban infrastructures that facilitate multiple scales of public use within the contemporary city. His public work has received over three million dollars in research funding. He is the winner of a Progressive Architecture Award, a Record House Award, and two NCARB Prize’s for excellence in teaching and practice. Spaces (UK), House + Garden (Russia), Metropolis Magazine, Places Journal, Architecture Magazine, a+t Architecture and Technology, Metro Magazine, Sprawl and Public Space published by the National Re-Envisioning Landscape/ Architecture. Actar Press, Phoenix: 21st Century City, United Kingdom, The Nature of Place: Strategies Toward a Situated Regionalism, Architectural Press. His work has been exhibited in Arizona, New York, and Spain.