Francesco Santoro is a lecturer in Design History and the History of Applied Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts of Siracusa MADE Program.
He graduated from the University of Architecture in Palermo, specialized at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture in Arizona, and earned a master's degree in landscape architecture from the University of Architecture in Rio de Janeiro. He has collaborated with several international architecture firms, including Enric Miralles in Barcelona (1994-1995), West 8 in Rotterdam (1996), Marcos Acayaba in São Paulo (1997-1998), SWA Group and GLS in San Francisco (2000-2003), and Gabriella Giuntoli in Pantelleria (2007-2008). In 2011, he won the competition for the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Park with AECOM and oversaw the design of the Marina da Glória for the 2016 Olympics and the RAI television studio for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
He has been a correspondent for the magazines “l’Architettura. Cronache e Storia,” “Bioarchitettura,” and “AU. Arquitetura e Urbanismo.” He was a professor of Design and Interior Architecture at IED, Istituto Europeo di Design, in Rio de Janeiro (2014-2017), and of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at the Fluminense Federal University in Brazil (2016-2017). Since 2018, he has been teaching at the MADE Program in Siracusa.