Roberto Fabbri is an architect, researcher, and currently professor at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi. He graduated from University of Florence, Italy and received a PhD from the University of Bologna, Italy. He previously taught at the University of Monterrey, Mexico, the University of Bologna, and the American University of Kuwait. A former consultant of the United Nations Development Programme, he regularly participates in international conferences, recently at Yale, Cambridge, King’s College London, SOAS and INHA-Paris, and published extensively in academic journals. He published two books on the architectural works of Max Bill (Bruno Mondadori, 2011; inFolio, 2017) and co-authored the double-volume, Modern Architecture Kuwait 1949–89 (Niggli 2015, 2017). He is currently writing the book Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf: Obsolescence and Opportunities in collaboration with Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi (Routledge – Forthcoming).