1982 - Graduated in Architecture from the Milan Polytechnic in 1982 with honors under Professor G. Canella.
1987 - Received a PhD in Architectural Composition from the IUAV with a thesis later published entitled "The Compositional Paradigm of the Capital City," Celid Turin 1996.
1986/96 - Creator, promoter, and coordinator of the international architectural design seminar "The City of the Theater," sponsored by the Design Department of the Faculty of Architecture of the Milan Polytechnic, held in Parma in 1987, 1990, and 1994.
1994 - Won a postdoctoral fellowship in Architectural Composition entitled "Typological Analysis as a Tool for Exploring the Communicative Aspects of Built Space" at the City-House Department of the Faculty of Architecture of the Turin Polytechnic. He was appointed as a contract professor for the course "Distributive Characteristics of Buildings - Theories of Contemporary Architectural Research" at the Polytechnic University of Turin.
1998 – He was awarded a tenured position in the national competition for Associate Professor of Architectural and Urban Composition. He was appointed to this position at the Faculty of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Turin, where he was responsible for a fourth-year Design Laboratory.
1999 – He promoted the establishment of the Faculty of Architecture in Parma, where he was a visiting professor.
2001 - Wins the competition for the full professorship in Architectural and Urban Composition at the Faculty of Architecture of Parma, where he teaches Architectural Design Laboratory 1.
2004-2012 - Creator, director, and scientific director of seven editions of the Festival dell'Architettura (Parma, Reggio, Modena), an event internationally recognized for the dissemination and comparison of architectural research, particularly on the relationship between architecture and the city, involving a vast network of Italian and European university contributors. Founds the publishing house Festival Architettura Edizioni (www.festivalarchitettura.it).
2010 - Organizes the First Parma Food Valley Symposium, attended by 44 professors from the University of Parma from various scientific disciplines, entitled "What do we mean by Food Valley?", Parma FAM 2011. Appointed an expert member of the Landscape Commission of the Emilia-Romagna Region.
2011 – Coordinates a research group proposing "Designing the Built Environment: New Integrated Quality Models for the Compact City," composed of professors and researchers from the Universities of Parma, Ferrara, Bologna, and Reggio-Modena. The group won, on a comparative basis (first place out of over 70 applicants), doctoral scholarships under the Spinner 2013 high-qualification program for the development of innovative ideas and projects of the Emilia-Romagna Region, with funding from the European Social Fund.
He is among the promoters of the "European Identity of Architecture" exhibition, selected for participation in the Europe Festival in Parma, organized by EFSA (European Food Safety Authority based in Parma), the Municipality of Parma, the Province of Parma, the European Commission – Representation in Milan, Europass, and the University of Parma.
2012 – As scientific director of the University of Parma group, he participated in the call for proposals and obtained European funding for an LLP-Erasmus Intensive Programme Design Workshop held in Parma with the participation of the schools of architecture of Aachen, San Sebastian, Barcelona, and Krakow, entitled “The Europe Effect - An urban gate for the University Campus in Parma’s Oltretorrente District,” FAM Parma 2012. He assumed the position of Deputy Director of the Department of Civil, Environmental, Land, and Architecture Engineering at the University of Parma.
2013 – Organized the urban design forum “CITTAEMILIA, the Kent State Forum on the City” Firenze Alinea on behalf of Kent State University.
He is the scientific director of the multidisciplinary interuniversity research group composed of professors from the University of Parma, the University of Bologna, and the Politecnico di Milano-Polo di Piacenza. His project, titled "Architecture for Emergencies: Strategies and Methodologies for the Recovery and Regeneration of Urban Fabrics Affected by Seismic Events," was funded (second in the ranking) with a PhD scholarship from the Spinner 2013 high-qualification program for the development of innovative ideas and projects of the Emilia-Romagna Region, with funding from the European Social Fund (Structural Funds of the European Community).
As part of the LLP (Lifelong Learning Programme) - Erasmus Intensive Programme, he submitted an application and won a grant to organize an international design workshop entitled "CCA – Compact City Architecture. Designing Centrality, Regenerating Suburbs," involving 30 students and 10 professors from 5 European universities. (Parma, Prague, Istanbul, Hamburg, Nantes), Parma from September 19 to October 4, 2013 (FAedizioni catalog).
In 2013, the first VQR 2004-2010, Evaluation of the Quality of Academic Scientific Research, awarded the Architectural and Urban Composition research group at the University of Parma, of which he is a full professor, the highest rating in the country.
He is participating in the PRIN (National Project for Research on Sustainable City) with a proposal for a research project on "The demand for a sustainable city: looking for best practices." This multidisciplinary and interuniversity research involves the Universities of Bologna, Parma, Turin, Salerno, and Catania, and the disciplines of Architecture, Urban Planning, and Sociology.
He was invited to participate in the exhibition "Architecture of the World. Infrastructure, Mobility, New Landscapes" held at the Milan Triennale at the conference "Research and Projects from the University World" with a presentation entitled "Via Emilia Town. For a Central Linearity between City and Countryside."
2013-2017 – He held the institutional role of Pro-Rector for Construction, Infrastructure and Urban Settlement at the University of Parma, where he developed and promoted the "MASTERCAMPUS strategy," an interdisciplinary applied research project (also funded by the POR ERDF and the Ministry of the Environment) aimed at regenerating and enhancing the functionality and form of the university complex in the city of Parma within a framework of European comparison (www.mastercampus.it). Among the most significant experimental projects: the photovoltaic garden-square, the food-science-sports trails, the new Engineering library, the new Economics classrooms, the Food Project Center, the regional Technopole, the Innohub Innovation Center, the CSAC archive-museum-laboratory at Valserena Abbey, the student residence at the San Francesco convent complex, the new classroom complex for the Department of Medicine at the Maggiore Hospital. "The Mastercampus project: a city-oriented university" in Paesaggio Urbano 1/2017.
He is a member of the Council and head of the "architecture" section of the Communication Studies and Archives Center of the University of Parma (www.csacparma.it).
2015 - 2016 - Appointed member of the Ministerial Commission for National Scientific Qualification in the macro-sector 08D1 – Architectural and Urban Planning.
He is part of the Emilia-Romagna Region expert group appointed by ASTER (Emilia-Romagna Region) to draft guidelines for urban regeneration in conjunction with the release of the new urban planning law (inter-university group UniPR, UniFE, UniBO, and UniMORE).
He is the scientific director of the international workshop "Parma-Granada. City understood as Campus / City understood as Campus". Granada, October 1-5, 2015; Parma, February 24-28, 2016, organized by the University of Parma and the Higher Technical School of Architecture of the University of Granada as part of the Erasmus bilateral exchanges.
He is the scientific director of the University of Parma group in the project research "Expo after Expo. Schools of architecture for the future of the Expo" organized by the Polytechnic University of Milan.
2018 – Member of the National Committee for the celebrations of the birth of architect Leonardo Ricci (MIBACT – Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism).
Since 2020, he has been researching healthcare architecture, particularly community housing typologies. This research, funded by PNRR funds in 2022, resulted in the publication From Community Homes to Community Health Centers – the architectural and urban project. (FAedizioni 2025).
In 2024, he promoted the Valserena Seminars, an annual cyclical event for national and international discussion on architectural design theory (Mimesis Proceedings series).
In 2025, as part of the celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Faculty of Architecture of Parma, he promoted and coordinated the international design workshop BINARIO 8 – a new headquarters for Architecture in Parma.
Since 1999, he has held various teaching positions at the University of Parma, including "Theories of Contemporary Architectural Research, Theory of Architectural Design, Analysis of Large Complexes and Infrastructure Works, Analysis of Urban Morphology and Building Typology, Typological Characteristics of Buildings." He has published over 80 national and international scientific publications (articles in journals, including Class A journals, essays, and monographs) on the topics of architecture and the city, particularly in the Emilian context (CITTAEMILIA, Via Emilia), at European and international levels (Festival dell’Architettura), and in particular on the topic of university development (MASTERCAMPUS). He is a member of several scientific committees of journals and directs the series “il progetto dell’archè” published by il Poligrafo di Padova. He is the author of numerous completed projects (including the new classroom complex on Via Kennedy for the Department of Economics of the University of Parma) as part of MASTERCAMPUS, the new headquarters of CFT industria (2019), and in general in the sector of public spaces and buildings as structuring components of urban development.
