by Valerio Viale
Elena Manferdini, acclaimed architect and designer, grew up in Bologna, capital of the Emilia-Romagna Region in Italy. Somehow the urbanistic eclecticism and theatrical quality of the landscape, made of medieval towers as well as a vast web of porticoes, must have tickled Elena's imagination.
However, her upbringing and interests led the young woman towards civil engineering, until, at twenty-two years of age, her life took an unexpected turn: she won a nine-months scholarship to study architecture at UCLA.
Source: http://www.italoamericano.org/
