Francesca is a designer with international experience in Europe and the United States. With an architectural and lighting design background, she pursued her education at the Polytechnic School of Turin in Italy, at the ETSAM School of Madrid in Spain and she earned a Master degree in Architecture from the Spitzer School of Architecture in NYC. Italy taught her the importance of site considerations, attention to the community and the re-use of existing building. In Spain she developed the capacity to be innovative and experimental through abstract exercises. United States extended her knowledge in new technologies, advanced computing techniques and the relationship between architecture and related fields such as art and engineering systems.
Her experience combined with personal design experimentation have informed and deepened her fascination with the notion of place. Francesca believes that architectural systems combined with educated design ideas have the power to create sensibilities unique to a site or situation: each site has a uniqueness that must be enhanced by architecture and at the same time, architecture has a need to create uniqueness in the site thought innovation and experimentation. Her research examines experimentation on a variety of scales using a range of tools and design strategies to achieve a greater understanding of site, context and place.
