Valerio Morabito is an award-winning professor and practicing landscape architect from Reggio Calabria, Italy. He is one of the founders of APScape, a company that investigates and promotes the ecology and resilience of landscape. He has taught, published, and worked internationally, mainly in the United States and China besides his native Italy. In spring 2022 he was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome, where he produced the series of drawings of American cities that will be exhibited during Design Philadelphia.