Marco Biraghi was born in Milan, Italy (1959). He is full professor at the Politecnico di Milano, where he teaches history of contemporary architecture. Among his books: Storia dell’architettura contemporanea

1750-2008 (Einaudi 2008), Project of Crisis. Manfredo Tafuri and Contemporary Architecture (MIT Press 2013), Storia dell’architettura italiana 1985-2015 (with Silvia Micheli, Einaudi 2013), L’architetto come

intellettuale (Einaudi 2019). He also edited the Italian edition of Delirious New York by Rem Koolhaas (Electa 2001) and Architettura del Novecento I-III (with Alberto Ferlenga, Einaudi 2012-13). He lectured

in many universities (among others Columbia University, Cooper Union, Harvard University, University of Houston, Berlage Institute, Queensland University, FAU São Paulo). In 2004 he co-founded GIZMO, research group dealing with history and criticism of contemporary architectural culture(www.gizmoweb.org).