Leone Spita (PhD), architect and associate professor at Sapienza. Author of monographs and essays on contemporary architecture and the city, from Africa to Central Asia and the Far East, with particular attention to Japanese architecture. Editor and correspondent, since 2002, for the magazine Abitare la Terra in which, since 2005, he has edited the wabi-sabi column. In 2003 he began his professional career dealing with installations, interiors and restoration. Among his books: A Japanese Anthology (2015); Architecture between two seas - Roots and architectural and urban transformations in Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia (2018); Architecture Meets Fashion (2024).