| Born 1951 in Rome, Italy. He graduated from the School of Architecture in Rome and began to work in the field of yacht design in 1974 while still a student. Over the years 150 racing and cruising sailboats have been built from his drawings around the world. Twenty-five of these projects have become popular production boats named: Ziggurat, Candos, Cornet, Genesi, Phoenix, Show42, ULDB 65', Oceano 54'. A selection of these works was exhibited in the PAC (Pavilion of Contemporary Arts) of Milan in 1983. He designed the Italian Challenge 12m IRC yachts, all named Azzurra, for the 1983 and 1987 America's Cup in Newport (USA) and Perth (AUSTRALIA), respectively. The racing results obtained by his designs, include first places at eh O.T.C. World Championship, the Fastnet Race, the Sardinia Cup, the Bermuda Race, the Northe American 50' Championshipm the Columbus Race 92' and around twenty IOR and IMS Italian Championships. In 1994 he designed the trading vessel Orsa Maggiore for the Italian Navy, a 93' advanced composite ketch. Currently is working on several 80' advanced composite fast-cruiser construction in Venice's Tencara shippiard. He has held the Chair of Industrial Design at the Faculty of architecture at the University of Pescara, Italy since 1994. | | |
| I have always thought that a watercraft look like a nest that take ina and give shelter to men who live on the sea in conditions which are sometimes extreme and sometimes instead very relaxing.When I was confronted with the Birdhouse theme it was natural for me to start from this type of shape and this type of objet and come up with a nest for a bird or seabird obviously.I thought that the appropriate environmental context was the natural one of the sea and the coast but also the artificial,man-made one of the shipyards where these types of boats are built I therefore tried to shapes(and they are may points of reference)that this hypothetical bird could find-some elements in wood or sea ply-wood -on the beach,on the sea or abandoned objects he could gather near a certain criteria could be used, according to different criteria,to build nests for big seabirds,I therefore passed from the logic of a national structure,which underlies the notion of the watercraft-nest,to a different logic which passes first through a de-structuralizing process and the gives life to a new nest intended for seabirds. | | |
