Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Department of Architecture of the University of Palermo.
Landscaper and designer, he is Vice-president at the Siciliy Section of the Italian Landscape Architects Association AIAPP
Board member of I-ASLA, Italian Scientific Society of Landscape Architecture.
He is one of the authors of the Parco Uditore in Palermo, has to his credit numerous interventions on landscape and the built envinronment and participations in urban planning designs.
He is author of numerous national and international publications and has been Visiting Professor in the USA, Australia, Spain and France.
At the University of Palermo he is director of the Laboratory of Landscape Architecture and also teaches Architectural Design. LandLab PA is the Landscape Architecture Research and Design Group founded by Prof Manfredi Leone at UNIPA. The aim is to develop Landscape Architecture, Open Spaces Design and related knowledge.
For years he has been developing research topics on various landscape themes, with a focus on the theme of coastal landscape, landscape of defenses and public space.