Born in Florence in 1910, he moved to Rome in 1924 to enrol in the Liceo Artistico in Via di Ripetta and then in 1928 to the Regia Scuola di Architettura from where he graduated in 1936.
To keep himself during his studies he was an interior painter, revealing an extraordinary talent and collaborating with Vittorio Morpurgo, becoming his university assistant for the Interior Architecture course in 1937.
In 1940 he won the competition for the Tower at the Mostra d’Oltremare in Naples and in 1942 he became head of the EUR 42 planning office, but the racial laws forced him to take refuge in Chieti where for ten years he was forced to do menial jobs because he was Jewish.
Back in Rome he opened an architecture studio and created numerous projects from the 60s onwards. Many buildings have been positively influenced by his artistic formation and his style and are still visible today in the city’s landscape.
In 1956 he won the competition for the Pinocchio Park in Collodi where he created the Piazzetta dei mosaici.
An architect who left very particular works, but for whom fortune did not smile on his undoubted talent.