Associate professor of "History of modern architecture" (ICAR/18).
Since 1995 he is in charge of research at the Centro di Studi sulla Cultura e l’Immagine di Roma, founded by Giulio Carlo Argan and directed by Marcello Fagiolo, and has participated in the planning and realization of exhibitions, conferences and research on Renaissance and Baroque architecture.
He has participated in numerous national research projects, including "Atlas of the Baroque in Italy" and "The cult of antiquity and the birth of archeology. First cycle of research on Pirro Ligorio: art, architecture, antiquarian culture".
He has published essays on the Renaissance and Baroque and in particular the volumes “Gianlorenzo Bernini e Clemente IX Rospigliosi. Arte e Architettura a Roma e in Toscana nel Seicento” (2004) and “San Luigi dei Francesi. La fabbrica di una chiesa nazionale nella Roma del '500” (2005).
He was in charge of historical-architectural research by the French Embassy in Rome and by the Pieux Établissements de la France à Rome et à Lorette for the restoration of the church and convent of the Trinità dei Monti, the churches of S. Luigi dei Francesi and S. Ivo dei Bretons and Palazzo Farnese (2009-2016). He has published numerous essays on French monuments in Rome and was recently editor of the proceedings of the international conference “Recherches et découvertes à la Trinité-des-Monts. 20 ans de chantiers” (Roma, Convento della Trinità dei Monti - École française de Rome, 23-24 October 2014).
Since 2018 he has been engaged in a study of some collections of design drawings of Baroque architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which led to the preparation of the exhibition "Del Barocco Ingegno. Pietro da Cortona e i disegni di architettura del ‘600 e ‘700 della collezione Gnerucci” (Cortona, 18 June-18 September 2022), in agreement with the Accademia Etrusca di Cortona and the Centro di Studi sulla Cultura e l’Immagine di Roma.
Among his latest research and teaching applications, he has dedicated himself to the themes of urban space and the role of architecture in the processes of learning and social integration of the contemporary city.
From 2017 to 2021 he held seminars on "History of modern and contemporary architecture" in the history of art master's degree course at Sapienza University of Rome (Dipartimento di Storia Antropologia Religioni Arte e Spettacolo).