Giancarlo Priori is an Italian architect, student of Paolo Portoghesi, essayist, journalist, theorist, and professor of Architectural and Urban Composition. Research, at the basis of every intellectual activity and founding humus of the discipline, was for Priori the key to building and defining a methodology and a theory to express his thoughts and his idea of Architecture. Priori’s architectural vision is rooted in art, nature and science and has transversal themes as references including place, city, memory, symbol, beauty, light, form, and space. He is the author of 44 books which have allowed him to investigate disciplinary problems critically.