Born in Carrara – Italy. He graduated in Architecture in 1980, from the University of Florence, and in 1981 co-founded the Studio Orsanmichele with Claudio Baudone.

In 1985 he embarked on his American Grand Tour, and during the same period, he worked in Manhattan with the architecture office, Cossutta Associated.

In 1986 he was invited as Visiting Professor at the Knowlton School of Architecture of the Ohio State University in Columbus, OH where he continued his scholarship of the architecture of the American Midwest.

From 1993 to 1996 he worked on several interior design projects for hotels in Frankfurt, Dusseldorf and Leipzig, in Germany. His current projects are in primarily in Tuscany, between Carrara and Florence.