André Pizzuto

André Pizzuto graduated in engineering and architecture at the University of Malta in 2002, and was granted a professional warrant to practise as an architect and civil engineer in Malta in 2004. He successfully read for a master’s degree in Planning Policy & Practice at London South Bank University in 2011. In 2016, he was conferred an MBA in Real Estate and Construction Management at the University College of Estate Management, Reading, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Project Management at the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. Pizzuto is the Managing Director of designprinciple, an architecture firm he set up in 2004 based in Valletta. He was also Executive Head of the Property Services Department at the Housing Authority of Malta between 2011 and 2013. He was elected as Council Member since December 2014, occupying the post of Vice-President and Treasurer of the Kamra tal-Periti in between January 2019 and December 2020, during which time he was the chief author and editor of A Modern Building & Construction Regulation Framework for Malta, which sets out Kamra’s official policy on industry reform, and also set up the national architecture awards, Premju Emanuele Luigi Galizia. Andre was elected to the post of President since December 2020. In November 2023, he was also elected to the Architects’ Council of Europe, where he occupies the role of Vice Treasurer.