After obtaining the degree of Civil EngineerArchitect at KU Leuven, he worked on the Piano Regolatore General for Bergamo at office Secchi Viganò, before graduating at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design as a Master of Architecture in Urban Design. In 2002 he completed a PhD investigating the role of survey in the development of British town planning. He is coeditor of Heteropia and the city: public space in a postcivil society (2008).