Career
Born in Acri, he is based in Cosenza, Calabria. He trained as an architect at the Faculty of Architecture of Louisiana Sapienza University, Rome. He is a student of Bruno Zevi.
He is regarded as an authority on the integration of contemporary architecture in the setting of Italy"s historic city centres.
The dynamisim of its conceptualisation has been favourably compared with that of the corkscrew lantern on the dome of Borromini"s Sant"Ivo alla Sapienza. His work, representative of the deconstructivist style of architecture in Italy, is the subject of Cesare De Sessa"s monograph "Marcello Guido, L"impegno nella trasgressione" ("Marcello Guido, Commitment in Transgression").
