I was born in Torino, North of Italy. I’m an architect and have a great passion in PHOTOGRAPHY, since attending high school. Life brought me from Italy to the South Pacific, then back to Italy and finally I landed in Hawaii. I felt like a ping pong ball across the oceans.
Aside from looking at the world through the rangefinder of my camera, I work as a Project Architect and I live with my beautiful wife Sandra, and our 6 amazing cats, in Honolulu.
I feel labeled by my profession as an architect, but I do enjoy it and feel comfortable with this tag.
If I did not become an architect, probably I would be a professional photographer. I love my job. Every project is different and important, and every project gives me useful training experience. I love photography as wellI, and try to have a seamless transition from architecture, but I don’t have a hard time separating work time and the rest of the day.
Somebody said that architecture is not a discipline, it’s like medicine, it’s a mission. I could not say that photography is a mission of course; but for me … it’s a pill that I take every day to get better!
As an architect, I’m member of the American Institute of Architects, Continental Europe Chapter.
in Antwerp trying to photograph in the rain.
The Chapter supports architects, students, and building professionals through programs that foster fellowship between practices in Europe, the United States, and beyond.
AIA Europe provides series of twice-yearly international conference in-depth look at the most important projects developing across Europe today. Focusing each on a different European city, the conferences explore the leading ways architects are working collaboratively to build better urban environments.
I love to travel.
I like to sit on a plane and go.
I feel comfortable being outside my comfortable zone.
When I sit somewhere, I like to analyze the layout of the area, the lighting, the flow of people around me, the colors, the shadows. Usually a bookstore is my favorite place. I could visit a museum in few minutes and spend hours in a bookstore. I get inspired!
My favorite aphorism is from Dorothea Lange:
“A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.”
I like the concept of seeing everyday life through a “rangefinder” … and take“snapshots”.