Scot DiStefano is a Registered Architect, Artist, Author, and Educator based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is a graduate of the University of Florida School of Architecture and certified by the National Council of Architecture Registration Boards. He has been practicing architecture as a solo practitioner since 2000, after working for Giller and Giller Inc. in Miami Beach and as an assistant to internationally renowned architect Dan Duckham in Fort Lauderdale. He is currently licensed and practicing in Florida, Arkansas, and Arizona.
Scot is a published architect and author. His work is featured in numerous publications, including Florida Architect, Home Fort Lauderdale, OBJEKT International (Netherlands), Wallpaper* Magazine (UK), New York Times, and the London Financial Times. Additionally, his home and studio, the FoxDen, is published in Villas of the World (China). Scot’s Master's thesis was published as a precise in World Architecture (UK).
Being an Artist raised by an Engineer, Scot’s work is a negotiation and exploration of the relationship between Subjective and Objective. His aspirations as an artist led him to an education in Architecture and sculpting space, form, and structure. What sets his work apart is the diversity of the collective body and what ties it together is that everything created is concept/ narrative driven. There isn't, at face value, a consistent aesthetic to his work, but if one were to study the work they would see a Venn diagram that forms. The area where the overlap occurs is (1) concept driven, (2) Art Nouveau and Organic Tradition influences, (3) Eastern Philosophy/ Architecture and (4) Tech Expressive Architecture influences. This is to say there is a right brain/ left brain balance that is not very common in the creative fields and each creation includes aesthetic and technical seeds of the other creations.