Francesco Santoro Architecture Cronache e Storia”, “Bioarchitettura”, “Compasses” and “AU Arquitetura & Urbanismo”.
Graduated from the Palermo University of Architecture in Italy with apprenticeship in Organic Architecture at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Taliesin, USA and master in Landscape Architecture at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The following international collaborations were established with the offices of Enric Miralles in Barcelona, with Adriaan Geuze and West 8
landscape architects in Rotterdam, with Marcos Acayaba in São Paulo, with SWA Group and GLS landscape architecture in San Francisco and with the Rio 2016 Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Among the most important projects in which he has been involved were the completion of the Igualada Cemetery Chapel in Spain, the landscape project for the University of California Berkeley Residence Halls in the USA, the Olympic Park competition and the Marina da Gloria sailing venue for the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic games, and the RAI Italian television broadcasting studios in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the past years he has pursued academic activity as professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at UFF, Fluminense Federal University in Niteroi and professor of Architecture and Interior Design in the Postgraduate program at IED, Istituto Europeo di Design in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in addition to acting as a correspondent to the international architectural magazines:“l' Architettura.
