Michele Saee believes that architecture is a part of everyday life, and that the work of architecture reflects their needs, their desires and their ability to improve the quality of their relationships with creativity and adventure. Michele Saee received his Master of Art in Architecture degree in 1981 at the University of Florence School of Architecture and his post graduate deagree in Technical Urban Planning at the Polytechnic of Milan. He began his professional career working with Superstudio in Florence, Italy, and then joined Morphosis in Santa Monica, California, after moving to Los Angeles in 1982. He started his own design firm in 1985. Michele joined the design faculty at Otis College of Art and Design in 1986, and in 1990 he began teaching at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). In the past 25 years Michele Saee has completed over 100 projects and built more than half of them. Michele Saee’s designs for two aquarium projects in the People’s Republic of China with Straco Corporation clearly reflect his sensitivity to the projects’ sites, contexts and programs. In his design for the Shanghai Ocean Aquarium, in Pudong, next to the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, his creative composition interacts with the tectonic complexities of the site, making a strong statement.