Graduated in architecture in Milan in 1969. 1973 saw him become professor of The History of Architecture in Palermo, and of Drawing at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV). He won an associate fellowship in 1983 and a full fellowship in 1986. His studies on representation were published by Marsilio in “Il disegno obliquo”(2005).
Between 1975 and 1993, he was Visiting Professor in various universities among which: Cornell University, Cooper Union N.Y., Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies N.Y., Technische Universität Vienna, Harvard University, Cambridge. From 2006, he became Davenport Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture. Editor of “Controspazio”, “Casabella”, “Lotus International”, director of “Eidos” (1989-1995) and the series of architectural books by Franco Angeli (1973-1988). From 1989, he designed furniture for Giorgetti where he was also the art director until 2001. He has held exhibitions in Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States. His works are permanently on show at the MoMA (New York), at the Teheran Museum of Contemporary Art, at the Deutsches Architektur Museum (Frankfurt) and at the Centre Pompidou (Paris). He realised installations for the Venice Biennial in 1980, 1984, 1991, 1996, and 2004 and at the Milan Triennials in 1973 and 1986. In 2001, he resigned from the university. He gained a pilot’s license in the same year. In 2007, Skira has published a monograph on the occasion of his personal exhibition at the Civic Museum in Riva del Garda.
