I was born in Argentina in 1951 of Italian parents.

  Today (2007) I live in France.

  I spent my school years in South America (Argentina, Chile and Peru)

  and moved to Italy with my parents and sister in 1970.

  I did one year at the University of Genoa .

  From 1973 until 1987 I worked in the import-export business

  in London and Genoa.

  My favourite past-time were playing soccer with my friends

  and riding motor-bike.

  This here  is me today (profile continues below) :

I abandoned my commercial career in 1987 and for some time I lived in a Gandhian

community in France, where I first came to know about earth construction.

After that, I started cooperating , and did so for a long time,

with a highly successful French architect who still today runs an Earth Construction center

 near Toulouse. There I learnt practically everything there was to know

 about the subject and did several workshops there and elsewhere in France.

In 1988 I did a big  building construction workshop in Devon (England).

Between 1988 and 1992 I lived in Asia (India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Thailand)

with a view to getting first-hand knowledge of the habitat situation in developing countries.

Back in Europe I did one more building construction workshop in Italy,

then moved to England again to carry out research at the

Intermediate Technology Development Group (today Practical Action) in Rugby.

In 1998 I moved back to France, where I still live today.

Between 1998 and 2004 I lived in a monastery, working a bit and

 trying to think what plans I wanted to make for the future.

Today I have plans to go back to Asia and build low-cost houses for the poor

and I am looking for sponsors.

Building with earth is my main interest but I also like studying various subjects

 (I have 700 books on subjects such as science, economics, politics, history and religion) ,

I like watching the odd silly action movie on TV, the odd big international soccer match,

listening to modern pop music and doing voluntary work

(in the little French village were I live I take care of the vagrant homeless people that land there).

                                                                                                                                                       (December 2007)

    For any further info, you are welcome to contact me at . . . e-mail.(click)