Luca is an architect and an architecture historian, from Genova. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at University of Genoa (Italy) and then he obtained a PhD in 2005 from the Polytechnics of Turin (Italy). He has lived and taught architectural courses in Istanbul since 2003. He recently went for a semester to Milan as resident professor at Politecnico di Milano, but he moved back to Istanbul, where he continues to lecture at Istanbul Technical University. His fields of interests cover several topics like: Contemporary Italian Architecture; 20th Century and Contemporary Turkish Architecture; Design in Turkey, Ottoman architecture and master Sinan; Ottoman heritage in the Balkans; Travelogues in Orient, Galata district and the Genoese traces in Turkey. He published last year a book on Sinan titled: “Il paesaggio delle architetture di Sinan”.