Native to Lithuania, Massimiliano Fuksas was born in 1944 in Rome where he received his first degree in architecture from the La Sapienza University in 1969. In 1967 he set up his first studio in Rome followed by a second one in Paris in 1989. He opened an office in Vienna in 1993 and one in Frankfurt in 2002, active until 2001 and 2009 respectively. Since 2008 he has an office in Shenzhen, China. From 1998 to 2000 he was the Director of the Venice Biennale’s VII International Architecture Exhibition, “Less Aesthetics, More Ethics”. He has been Visiting Professor at several universities, including École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris, the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Vienna, the Staadtliche Akademia des Bildenden Kunste in Stoccarda, and Columbia University in New York. Since 2000 he has been the author of the architectural column founded by Bruno Zevi in the weekly magazine “L’Espresso”. For many years he has been devoting special attention to urban problems in large metropolitan areas. He works and lives in Rome and in Paris.