Manfredo di Robilant, assistant professor of architectural design at the Politecnico di Torino, is an architect and a scholar in theory and history of modern architecture. He has been research associate to the 14^th Venice architecture Biennale, Visiting Scholar at the CCA Montréal and member of the advisory board of Domus Academy, Milan. Among his recent publications, the books dedicated to ceiling and window (Marsilio and Rizzoli International, 2014) of the elements of architecture research project for the 14^th Venice architecture Biennale (with Rem Koolhaas, AMO, Harvard GSD).