Francesca is an architect and engineer with extensive experience in architecture, real estate and design. She is cofounder and director of SASI Studio, an architecture and design office based in London. Francesca was a senior architect at Zaha Hadid Architects, after working at Foster and Partners, 3D Reid and Coffice. She holds an MArch in architecture design from the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) and an MEng in architectural engineering from the University of Rome Tor Vergata. She has also completed a course in real estate economics and finance at the London School of Economics. Francesca teaches Media Studies at the AA and has been invited to teach at several institutions.