Qualifications: M. S. Historic Preservation; Diploma in Town Planning: Professional Degree in Architecture. Title: Technical Advisor Projects role: Preservation Planning and Urban DesignFrancesco is an architect, town planner and architectural conservation consultant, trained in Italy, Belgium and the USA, with forty plus years of experience. His past responsibilities encompass projects funded by the World Ban Group, UNESCO, UNDP, the Historic Cities Programme of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC).
He has formulated urban plans, programme strategies and project frameworks, developed and managed relations with international donors and national and local authorities, and written and produced related publications. Direct project implementation experience includes master planning, design services, project supervision and the delivery of post-construction documentation and publications. He has been visiting lecturer at ICCROM, the University of Rome and Cassino, and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as writte books, articles and papers on various architectural conservation and town planning subjects. His latest publication, Issues in Urban Conservation, was awarded the 2021 Antoinette Forrester Downing Book Award by the American Society of Architectural Historians.
In 2019, he spent six months in Malaysia working for Think City on renovation and conservation projects in the George Town World Heritage Site. Currently he is running a design studio in Rome and Phd with La Sapienza University in Architectural Technology s, consultancy work is focused on energy efficiency and retrofitting older structures. Valerio is a proficient draughtsman capable of handling technical details and complex tridimensional visuals. He is also highly skilled in various digital programs, including Autocad, Sketchup, Vray, Twinmotion and Enscape.
Thanks to her thesis she was also involved as a consultant at the Aga Khan Trust for Culture for a damage assessment and urban conservation in three areas of the historical core of Aleppo and other restoration interventions in historical sites in Asia. In 2018 she partecipate in a postgraduate program in Urban Heritage and Global Tourism and throughout 2019 she deepened her research at Iuav on Sustainable housing solutions for post-war reconstruction of the MENA region. Rossella is currently based in the Netherlands where in recent years she has collaborated with architectural firms such as UNStudio and Barcode Architects on several international projects at all architectural scales and functions. She is able to manage all phases of the project and is specialized in the coordination and management of BIM.