Professor Francesco Mancini is a registered Architect, Landscape Architect, and Planner in Italy. He is a Teaching Academic and Deputy Head of Curtin University School of Design and the Built Environment. Francesco is a member of the Architects Accreditation Council of Australia Review Panel and the Accreditation Management Committee. He is also a member of the Board of Architects of Western Australia and represents the Architects Board at the Australian Institute of Architects Educational Committee.
Before joining Curtin in 2015, Francesco worked as a design consultant in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He returned to Rome in 2001 to establish his architectural practice and served as a design advisor for the City of Rome, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Chief of Staff Defence until 2015. 
Francesco taught and researched for over twenty years as a research fellow and assistant professor of architectural design in the Department of Architecture at the University of Roma Tre.
He taught with internationally eminent scholar and architect Peter Eisenman at The Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York. He also taught Architectural Design at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture in Rome, the Pratt Institute in Rome, and the Iowa State University College of Design in Rome.
Francesco is an architectural scholar and designer interested in design thinking, innovative urban morphologies and typologies, architecture, power, and spatial language.
His current research and teaching build on his expertise and experience in urban design, architecture and housing,  focusing on cultural, social and technological sustainability.
Francesco holds a PhD from the University of Florence on Peter Eisenman’s work, published on Building Typology and urban morphology. He is a member of the International Seminar of Urban Form (ISUF) and the founder and leader of the Perth Urban Research Lab (PURL).