Graduated with honors in Architecture in 1999 (supervisor Laura Thermes), PhD in Architectural and Urban Design in 2004, AR has been continuously carrying out teaching and university research activities since 2000. He is the author of volumes, essays and contributions published in texts and magazines, among which the publication of the monographs "La materia della forma" (Aion, Florence 2022), "Elementare e Complesso" (LetteraVentidue, Siracusa 2020), "Vuoto e Progetto" (LetteraVentidue, Siracusa 2018), "Dall’immagine all’etica" (Gangemi, Rome 2012), "Sequenze didattiche" (Iiriti, Reggio Calabria 2012), the single-signature curatorship of the volumes "Reggio Calabria-Istanbul. A project for Galata" (LetteraVentidue, Siracusa 2020), "Autographic City. Design and Project for a Dialogue between Generations" (Gangemi, Rome 2012) and, with others, the volumes "The Project of the Existing and the Southern City. Chiaramonte Gulfi, Continuing a World" (Iiriti, Reggio Calabria 2017), "Laura Thermes. The Metropolitan Area of the Strait" (Gangemi, Rome 2014), "Projects for the South" (Il Poligrafo, Padua 2008), "The Metropolitan Area of the Strait. Nuovi scenarios" (Iiriti, Reggio Calabria 2008). Beyond Reggio Calabria, the site of his first study and research activity, he has held lectures, speeches, seminars, roles as a jury member and coordinator of design laboratories at the universities of Palermo, Agrigento, Enna, Syracuse, Catania, Messina, Cosenza, Naples, Rome, Florence, Pisa, Ferrara, Piacenza, Milan, Bergamo, Padua, Venice, Istanbul. His drawings and projects have been exhibited at the Festival of Architecture in Parma, the Venice Biennale, the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, the M.A.C.RO. Museum and the Crocetti Foundation in Rome, the Palazzo Rospigliosi in Zagarolo, the Palazzo Lucarini in Trevi, the Shanghai Universal Expo. His activity as a designer carried out with "Moduloquattro Architetti", of which he was a co-founder, has been the subject of critical reports, awards, consultations by invitation, seminars and a dedicated monograph entitled "Moduloquattro-Spazio Misura Struttura" (by M.Oddo, EUno Edizioni 2012). Qualified for the role of Full Professor of Architectural and Urban Composition, he currently belongs to the D'Arch-Department of Architecture of the University of Palermo as RTDB SSD Icar16 Interior Architecture.