Self-driven research | 105 Cities
Northern Italy - Western Europe - North America

Throughout my academical and professional experiences, I faced the urge for new inventive solutions in order to rehabilitate a built environment that progressively becomes inadequate to our fast-changing societal needs. With this in mind, after having spent a year working on Victorian houses renovation at De Rosee Sa in London, I dedicated the 2017-2018 academic year to self-driven researches about the past, present, and future of city development.

I had the aspiration to undertake three field trips, each being based on the visit to 35 cities, in which I would be as much interested in the physical evolution of the urban tissue than the historical, societal and economic reasons supporting its ever-changing transformation.

I started my investigations with a three months field trip to Northern Italy, seeking to understand in each era how architecture would relate to science, politics, and myths. I then got immersed in a broader journey around Europe, analyzing the prospective success of its cities transition to more sustainable and inclusive places, and ended this exploration in the spring by traveling to North America, having a particular focus on city infrastructures and sub-urban industrial areas.

The City And Its Presents is a compendium gathering this year’s material. From on-site surveys to writings and analysis, it unveils my fascination for the myriad of factors and considerations responsible our city’s development. The next pages share the overall structure of the book and some of the material produced during my visit to Montepulciano, Italy.