Antonio Paoletti is an Italian architect and filmmaker whose work engages with issues of urban transformation and spatial inequality, through documentary and narrative forms. His short hybrid documentary When I Came to Your Door, which examines the effects of development-induced displacement in Addis Ababa, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, won first prize at the Venice Architecture Film Festival, and was screened at the International Alexandria Short Film Festival, among others.
His graphic novel Keniko: Reconfiguring Addis Ababa’s Narrative, which brings together ethnographic observations of everyday life and speculative proposal for an alternative redevelopment of the city’s informal settlements, won the hand-drawn category of the 2021 Architecture Drawing Prize. In 2023, he worked on the development of an affordable housing prototype in Addis Ababa, in collaboration with architects Dick van Gameren and Rahel Shawl, which was exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Born in 1995, he studied architecture in Rome, Porto, and Delft, where he now teaches and conducts research at TU Delft.