Architect, curator, critic. Full Professor of Theory of Architecture at Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy and PhD in Theory and History of Architecture at the TU Delft (NL). As a scholar he devoted his early works to post-war European architecture focusing on the relationship between continuity and crises. In recent years he focused on the concept of domesticity as a political and symbolic environment as well as the notion of wonder as theoretical tools to redefine the form of social and spatial contract to regenerate our living environment. He contributes as an independent critic for Italian and international newspapers and magazines. Scientific Director of the Portaluppi Foundation, Milan (2001-2006) and FMG Space for Architecture, Milan (2008-218). Scientific Director of Triennale of Milan for architecture and town planning (2001-2004). Curator of the Italian Pavilion at XII International Architecture Exhibition in Venice (2010). Scientific Director of the M9 Museum in Mestre (2020-2023), a cultural institution devoted to the material history of the Italian XX century and a public laboratory for the present times. Since 2017 he is the Editorial Director of “Platform architecture and design” a bimonthly, Italian based, international magazine devoted to contemporary architecture and arts. As curator he contributed to temporary exhibitions and new museum’s concepts such as: Fondazione Portaluppi, Milan; the Transport Education Centre, Doha, Qatar; the Istanbul City Museum, Istanbul; the ADI Design Museum, Milan; Musei Civici di Reggio Emilia, Museo della Gastronomia Complesso di San Paolo, Parma; Master of the Net Garden, Guangzhou; Reggia di Caserta; Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino; Fondazione Cini, Venice; Brera Art Gallery/palazzo Citterio, Milan; Museo di Santa Maria alla Scala, Siena. Among his recent publications: Stanze. Abitare il desiderio (2024); Il progetto del racconto. Interview with Federica Rasenti (2023), La meraviglia è di tutti. Corpi, città, architetture (2022); Dismisura. La teoria e il progetto dell’architettura in Italia (2019); The house that we are (2016); Ailati. Reflections from the Future (2010); Continuità: a response to identity crises. Ernesto Nathan Rogers and Italian architectural culture after 1945 (2008), Tadao Ando. Museums (2006), Post-war Italian Architecture 1944-1960 (2000). Among acknowledgements for his work: 2006 Ernesto N. Rogers Award by the10th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Jean Tschumi Prize at the 2008 UIA Congress, “Academic of Merit” by Perugia Academy of Arts, 2016 and Academic, correspondent, Accademia del Disegno, Firenze, 2022.