Federico Marcolini was born in Italy in 1985. He completed his master's studies at IUAV in Venice (M.Arch.) and is an architect and PhD Student in Architecture and Urban Design at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineer. Since 2016, he has been a teaching assistant for Design Studio courses at Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Mantova, working with international architects such as Eduardo Souto de Moura and Carrilho da Graça. His research topics include architectureal design in historical context and he specialises in regeneration project of abandoned infrastructures such as railways. He has also contributed to the publication: Ignazio Gardella other architecture as a result of a research project in collaboration with the Parma CSAC archive, the University of Parma and Politecnico di Milano, focusing on the work of the Italian master Ignazio Gardella. In 2020, he taught the course »Ideal City Theory« at the Hochschule in Kaiserslautern.