Michele Chiuini obtained his first degree in structural engineering at the Politecnico of Milan in 1973. In order to pursue his interests in architectural design methods, he studied at the Faculty of Architecture, Sheffield University, England, where he obtained an MA with Distinction. In 1977 he became Lecturer in Architecture at Nottingham University, teaching Design Theory and Architectural Design. He opened the Archilab office in Nottingham with David Nicholson-Cole, RIBA, and then an office in Italy where he returned to practice in 1981. In 1989 he was invited to Ball State University, USA, to teach Structural Design and Architectural Design. His research interests have included building technologies for housing and digital communication methods as Senior Research Associate del Housing Futures Institute. He also published Structural Design with Wiley in1998. During the last ten years his research has focused on the use of digital media for the analysis and documentation of archaeological and historic structures. In this field he has co-edited the proceedings of the international conference on Digital Media Applications to Cultural Heritage, Amman, 2008.  He is currently engaged on a research on Santa Maria Antiqua in the Roman Forum and on the digital reconstruction of the Chicago Stock Exchange.