Flavio Albanese (born in Vicenza in 1951), lives between Vicenza, Milan, Palermo and Pantelleria. Self-taught, Albanese has built up his professional career through experiences outside of the academic world that have lead him to work with great passion in the fields of architecture, design, art, philosophy, literature and the culinary arts, always taking a highly contemporary approach. As a collector, he has always sought to create experimental spaces in which architecture and art interact with one another and has commissioned site specific works to a number of well-known contemporary artists. In 1987 he set up the architectural practice ASA studioalbanese with Franco Albanese, that currently has a staff of over forty and offices in Vicenza, Milan and Palermo. With the practice, he has been involved in projects of different scales, mainly in Italy but also in Europe, Asia and the USA; residential buildings, hotel complexes, management offices, rehabilitation projects involving the landscape and ex-industrial sites, town planning, design for cultural spaces and art events, publishing. In 2007 he was invited to participate in the concept scheme for replanning in Beijing, according to the masterplan by Rem Koolhaas’s practice OMA. Flavio Albanese was member of the scientific committee for Domus Academy and he coordinated the Officina at the port of Palermo.
From May 2007 to March 2010 he was chief editor of the international architecture magazine DOMUS.